From its origins to its links with TV dinners, here are some things you may not know about America’s most popular holiday

Did you know that a shortage of molasses once postponed Thanksgiving for an entire Connecticut town, as it meant that no pumpkin pies could be made? Or that we have a magazine editor to thank for its status as a national holiday? Or, more seriously, that many American Indians do not celebrate at all and instead observe a Day of Mourning?

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