1. Turkey breeding has caused turkeys' breasts to grow so large that the turkeys fall over. Wild turkeys can fly for short distances up to 55 miles per hour but commercially raised turkeys cannot fly (primarily because they are too top-heavy).
2. Americans feast on approximately 600 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving (about 45 million birds)
3. The symptoms of Salmonella are: bloody diarrhea, fever,
abdominal pain, nausea, headache, and muscle pain
4. Each year, the president pardons 2 turkeys, named "Liberty" and
"Freedom," saving their little turkey lives
(I am NOT kidding). go to:
5. The chemical in turkey that makes you feel sleepy is called Tryptophan.
Go and impress your loved ones with that bit of knowledge. As an
interesting aside, it appears to effect men more than women, since
somehow the women are still cleaning the kitchen after eating the turkey
and the men are comatose on the couch. Perhaps this disparity in men
and women's physiological response would make for an excellent
undergraduate research project.
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