20 Facts About Halloween No One Ever Told You

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And Illinois produces most of the pumpkins in the United States.

If you enjoy a pumpkin pie this Halloween, there’s a high chance that the filling inside it came from Illinois. According to the Department of Agriculture, Illinois harvests three to five times as many pumpkin acres as any of the other top pumpkin-producing states.

Almost 80 percent of the acres they devote to the fruit are harvested specifically for pumpkin pie filling or other processing uses. California, Indiana, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio Pennsylvania, and Texas also produce a large number of pumpkins.

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