♥ RANDOM INTERSTING FACTS

CURRENT MOOD: Feeling a little funny... Haha!

• HALLOWEEN HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT NAMES!
  All Hallows Eve, Samhaim, Hallowtide, The Feast of the Dead, Hallowe'en, All Saints Even, El Dia De Los Muertos!
• HALLOWEEN CELEBRATIONS DATE BACK 2000 YEARS!
• THE TRADITION OF WEARING MASKS COMES FROM THE CELTIC AND WELSH!
  The masks are intended to keep spirits of the dead from recognizing the living on October 31st as tradition states this is when they visit!
• ALMOST 99% OF PUMPKINS ARE SOLD AS JACK O' LANTERNS FOR HALLOWEEN!
• HALLOWEEN IS THE SECOND MOST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL DAY!
• IN 2009, HALLOWEEN COSTUME SALES EXCEEDED 6 BILLION DOLLARS!
  62% of these were adult oriented costumes!
• IN 1964 Helen Pfeil of Greenlawn NY was arrested for handing out ARSENIC LACED TREATS!
• IN THE AMERICAS DURING THE 1800'S THE END OF THE HARVEST SEASON WAS CELEBRATED AT THE END OF OCTOBER BY WEARING COSTUMES, PLAYING PRACTICAL JOKES AND EATING TREATS!

• EACH PUMPKIN CONTAINS ABOUT 500 SEEDS!
  You could grow a lot of pumpkins with that!
• 90% OF PARENTS ADMIT TO SNEAKING GOODIES FROM THEIR KIDS TREAT BAGS!
• 30% OF CHILDREN SORT THEIR CANDY AFTER RETURNING HOME!
• MORE CANDY IS SOLD ON OCTOBER 28TH THAN ANY OTHER DAY OF THE YEAR!
• THE LARGEST PUMPKIN EVER WEIGHED WAS 2009 LBS!
  Grown by Ron Wallace, it even broke a world record!
• THE FIRST JACK O' LANTERNS WERE ORIGINALLY MADE FORM TURNIPS!
• 3,734,401 is the number of trick-or-treating aged kids in Canada, defined as those between five and 14 years old!
• $355.9 MILLION IS THE AMOUNT OF CANDY SOLD ACROSS CANADA LAST OCTOBER!
• 88,400 TONNES IS THE AMOUNT OF PUMPKINS GROWN IN CANADA LAST YEAR!