We’ll be taking a long weekend, so this week, Factastical Friday is on Thursday. Have a great holiday. Or at least a better one than the turkeys!

In 2008, the average American ate 17.6 pounds of turkey.

The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog.

The male turkey is called a tom. Baby turkeys are called poults.

675 million pounds of turkey are eaten each Thanksgiving in the United States.

Turkeys have been around for almost ten million years.

It takes 75-80 pounds of feed to raise a 30 pound tom turkey.

Turkey breeding has caused turkey breasts to grow so large that the turkeys routinely fall over.