There's always that point during Thanksgiving when everyone is stuffed and unable to move. Why not use that time to show off your amazing trivia knowledge about the holiday? Impress your family and friends (they're stuck to the couch, after all) with some information about the first Thanksgiving, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and even Black Friday that they probably won't know.

• 1. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States. Unfortunately, Thomas Jefferson wasn't on board with that idea and blocked it. To spite Jefferson, Franklin named male turkeys 'Tom.'
• 2. 'Gobble' is the mating call of a male turkey.
• 3. Although Abe Lincoln declared that the fourth Thursday of every November be a day of Thanksgiving, it wasn't an official national holiday until 1941.
• 4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving forward a week in 1939 to help extend the holiday shopping season in the hope that it would stimulate the economy.
• 5. Thanksgiving was first celebrated in 1621. A year earlier, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. After a hard year, only half of those Pilgrims had survived, which led them to celebrate and have a thanksgiving feast. It lasted three days and also included games.
• 6. The pilgrims celebrated with the Wampanoag tribe. The Wampanoags had helped the Pilgrims greatly during the year following their arrival.
• 7. An estimated 250 million turkeys have been reared for Thanksgiving in 2009. 87% of Americans will eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
• 8. NBC Radio broadcast the first national NFL Thanksgiving Day game in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the Chicago Bears. Since then, except during World War II, the Lions have played every Thanksgiving.
• 9. The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was in 1924. Animals from the Central Park Zoo were used to walk in the parade.
• 10. In 1927 the parade added helium balloons, which were released into the air after the parade was over. Prizes were offered to people who found the balloons when they popped and landed again.
• 11. The parade route is lined by some 3 million people each year! Another 44 million watch it at home.
• 12. The idea that Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year is false: The last Saturday before Christmas almost always shows higher grosses.
• 13. The first astronauts on the moon, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, dined on rehydrated turkey in foil packets to celebrate in space.