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Thanksgiving trivia & fun facts to
amaze everybody...
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Where can you find the most turkeys in the U.S.?
(Washington, D. C. is NOT the right answer. These are different kinds of turkeys!)
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Where do most of the cranberries in your sauce come from ... (and it's not Massachusetts)?
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And how many people can claim Turkey, U.S.A.
as their hometown?
Just up ahead, check out fun facts about Thanksgiving by the numbers :

7 places named Cranberry,
or some variation thereof ...
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$1.39
is the average cost per pound in of a frozen whole turkey in the U.S. based on 2019 data. That's a price drop from $1.41 per pound during the previous year.
3
is the number of places nationwide named after the holiday's
tasty gobbler. Turkey,
Texas, is the most populous, with 496 residents; followed
by Turkey Creek, La. (357); and Turkey, N.C. (267). There also
are 16 townships around the country named "Turkey,"
three of them in Kansas.
7
is the number of places and townships in the U.S. of A. that are
named "Cranberry" or some variation of the name (e.g.,
Cranbury,
New Jersey)
33
is the number of places in the United States named Plymouth, as
in Plymouth
Rock, legendary location of the first Thanksgiving. Plymouth,
Minnesota is the most populous, with 75,907 residents in 2015. Plymouth,
Massachusetts had 51,701.
16.4
pounds is the amount of turkey consumed by the typical
American each year -- no doubt a good bit of it at Thanksgiving time.

With 243 million turkeys raised in the US each year, that's almost a turkey in every pot.
243
million is the total estimated number of of turkeys raised
in the United States in 2016, up a couple of percentage points from 2015. And that's a lot of
turkey!
44
million is the estimated of the number of turkeys Minnesota
raised in 2016. The Gopher State is tops in turkey production followed by North Carolina (33.0 million), Arkansas (26.0 million), Indiana (20.0 million), Missouri (19.7 million) and Virginia (17.0 million).

Illinois leads U.S. pumpkin production -- followed by California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. |
859
million pounds was the forecast for U.S. cranberry production
in 2016, with Wisconsin leading
all states in the production of cranberries at 521 million
pounds, followed by Massachusetts (207 million). New Jersey (54 million)
and Washington State (1.4 million).
457
million pounds is the
record held by Illinois for total U.S. pumpkin production
followed by California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York
which produced at least 70 million pounds worth.
3.1 billion pounds is the total weight of sweet potatoes — another popular Thanksgiving side dish — produced by major sweet potato producing states in 2015. North Carolina (1.2 billion pounds) produces more sweet potatoes than any other state, followed by California, Mississippi and Louisiana.
14 million is the total number of Americans who were too daunted to prepare Thanksgiving dinner (you're not alone!) and who planned to visit a local restaurant for Thanksgiving. An additional 16 million ordered out for at least part of their Thanksgiving feast.

...with thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National
Agricultural Statistics Service, The National Restaurant Association, U.S. import and export trade
reports, and the U.S. Census and the Statistical Abstract of the United
States.
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