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Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Trivia - It’s more than just a break between Halloween and Christmas. In fact, Thanksgiving has been a round for hundreds of years and has its own traditions. Here are 20 little known facts about the great Turkey Day holiday: 1) Thanksgiving can occur as early as Nov. 22 and as late as Nov. 28. 2) Thanksgiving is an amalgam of different traditions, including ancient harvest festivals, the religious New England Puritan Thanksgiving, the traditional harvest celebrations of England and New England, and changing political and ideological assumptions of Native Americans. 3) The famous pilgrim celebration at Plymouth Colony Massachusetts in 1621 is traditionally regarded as the first American Thanksgiving. However, there are actually 12 claims to where the “first” Thanksgiving took place: two in Texas, two in Florida, one in Maine, two in Virginia and five in Massachusetts. 4) The Pilgrim’s thanksgiving feast in 1621 occurred sometime between Sept. 21 and ...