- The first meal on the moon by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in foil packets, was a roast turkey dinner!
- Benjamin Franklin wanted our national bird to be the wild turkey instead of the eagle.
- Scientists have found turkey fossils that are 10 million years old.
- Male turkeys are called Toms. Female turkeys are called Hens. A baby turkey is called a Poult.
- A large group of turkeys is called a flock. A nest of turkey eggs is called a clutch.
- Only Tom turkeys gobble. Female turkeys make a clicking sound.
- Domesticated (farm) turkeys can't fly, but wild turkeys can fly for short distances, up to 55 miles per hour. Wild turkeys can also run, up to 25 miles per hour.
- Full-grown turkeys have about 3,500 feathers!
- Turkey gobbles can be heard from as far as a mile away.
- 95% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving. They eat 535 pounds of it!
- The Pilgrims most likely ate turkey on the first Thanksgiving.
- In Turkey, instead of "gobble, gobble", people say turkeys say "glu glu."
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