Thanksgiving Is the Top Day for Cooking Fires
NFPA's 2017 to 2021 averages: about 1,470 home cooking fires reported on Thanksgiving, against about 430 on an average day.
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Where Black Friday Shoppers Actually Shop
NRF reports 85.7 million online and 80.3 million in-store Black Friday shoppers in 2025, the top day in both channels.
How Often Do US Airlines Bump Passengers?
Frontier: 1.42 involuntary bumps per 10,000 passengers in January to June 2026, versus 0.91 for Spirit and 0.52 for American, per DOT.
How Busy Is the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line?
Butterball says its Turkey Talk-Line experts answer more than 100,000 questions a season; we found no current count of calls on the day before Thanksgiving.
How Many Americans Are Vegetarian or Vegan?
In Gallup's July 2026 poll, 5% of US adults said they consider themselves vegetarian and 2% vegan, about 1 in 20 and 1 in 50.
Spring Break Alternatives
Since MTV began broadcasting its seasonal “Spring Break” program in 1986, it’s gotten hard not to see spring break as 150 unbroken hours of…
Do Americans Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions?
In a December 2019 Marist Poll, 73% of Americans who made a New Year's resolution for 2019 said they kept it for at least part of the year.