Pumpkins are a fruit.
Pumpkins are 90% water.
Pumpkins originated in Central America.
Pumpkins range in size for under 1 pound to over 1000 pounds.
Pumpkins available in October in the United States are 80% of the crop.
Pumpkins were once recommneded for removing freckles and curing snake bites.
Pumpkins, in colonial times, were used as an ingredient for the pie crust not the filling.
source: Emery-Pratt newsletter, Oct/Nov 2007
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