Halloween Trivia
Whether you are at a wild party tonight with the adults, throwing down booze with James Dean, a skeleton, and a ridiculously naughty nurse, or just toting the kids around town tomorrow begging for candy (that will be me), here are a few Halloween-related conversation starters:
- The most popular costumes for 2009 (unofficially) are Michael Jackson, Kate Gosselin, vampires, and Billy Mays in no particular order.
- Candy fact: almost $2 billion will be spent in the U.S. on Halloween candy this year!1
- Snickers bars were named after a horse owned by the Mars family.2
- The first jack-o-lanterns were made out of turnips, not pumpkins.3
- To keep squirrels away from your pumpkins, try putting chili powder on them – the pumpkins, not the squirrels. I’ve had success with liquid dish soap in the past, but some people swear by the chili powder or other mashed peppers.4
Read on:
OregonLive.com – Michael Jackson among most popular Halloween costume picks for 2009
- http://stayathomemoms.about.com/b/2009/10/20/close-to-2-billion-to-be-spent-on-halloween-candy.htm ↩
- http://recipes.slides.kaboose.com/76-halloween-candy-trivia/2 ↩
- http://www.usefultrivia.com/holiday_trivia/halloween_trivia_003a.html ↩
- http://ezinearticles.com/?13-Home-Remedies-For-Keeping-Squirrels-Away&id=1222651 ↩
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