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A heavy helping of Thanksgiving facts to impress at the dinner table (18 Photos)
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The OG Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 and served 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians and the event stretched the span of 3 days. Many historians believe that sadly only five women were present at that first Thanksgiving due to the high fatality rate among women settlers who didn’t survive that difficult first year in the U.S.