I posted this a few years ago but since this week is Halloween, I thought I’d post it again.
I was searching online and I happened upon a topic on History.com called Halloween by the Numbers.
Did you know that there was a pumpkin grown in 2010 that weighed 1,810 pounds? Here is a reference to judge just how heavy that was. It weighed as much as a dairy cow or roughly half the weight of a small car.
Did you know that U.S. growers produce over 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins per year. That is more than twice the weight of hte Empire State Building. The top pumpkin producing states are Illinois, California, Ohio, Pennsylvannia, New York and Michigan.
A pumpkin is a member of the gourd family which includes cucumbers, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, watermelon and zucchini. These foods are native to Central America and Mexico but are now grown on six continents.
46% of American adults carve a pumpkin for Halloween.
Each pumpkin contains about 500 seeds. …
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