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Enjoy these frightfully good facts and not-so-spooky stats relating to Halloween:
distance of the world record for Pumpkin Chuckin’ (shot out of an air cannon).
35 126 M
number of Halloween cards Americans send each year.
30,919
calories in 85 roasted pumpkin seeds.
Jack o’ Lanterns were carved and lit in Highland, Ill., to set a world record in 2011.
4.57 $116.5 million pounds of pumpkin are consumed annually by every American.
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the worth of U.S. pumpkins harvested from 48,500 acres in 2011.
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after Christmas, Halloween is the most commercially successful holiday.
840pounds record for largest pumpkin ever grown in Florida (New Smyrna Beach). The world record, held by a Canadian, is 1,818.5 pounds.
No. 1 271 41 population of Skull Creek, Neb.
million potential trick or treaters in the U.S. (children aged 5 through 14).
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adult costume in 2011: witch.
year Harry Houdini, the great escape artist, died on Halloween in Detroit.
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$7B 4,424.28 ft. how much Americans spend on Halloween, including $2.52 billion on costumes and $2.2 billion on candy. The average person spends $72.32 on costumes, candy and decorations.
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// CompILed by LINDA KLEINDIENST
of candy corn is bought by Americans each year, making it the top-selling Halloween candy. The sweet, waxy treat was invented 132 years ago by George Renninger.