For the first time since 1888, Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah fall on the same day. What’s even more amazing is that this won’t happen for another 79,000 years–by one calculation. Hit the jump for more info.
Seems that the reason for the overlap is because the Jewish calendar is very slowly getting out of sync with the solar calendar, at a rate of 4 days per 1000 years.
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