• Halloween Express recently caught a shoplifter. The punishment? The thief had to stand outside the store in a Bert (from Sesame Street) costume, holding a sign that read: I got caught shoplifting… Now. Does anyone else see the ineffectiveness of this? Or is it just me?

• Nothing rhymes with orange. Really. I’m not kidding.

• Everyone’s seen orange pumpkins – and probably green and white ones. But did you know there are actually blue pumpkins, too?

• The US spends an average of $2 billion on Halloween candy each year. Another $1.5 billion is spent on costumes, while $2.5 billion is spent on Halloween paraphernalia.

• Eighty-six billion Americans decorate their homes.

• Upwards of 93 percent of kids under 12 go trick-or-treating (that breaks down to roughly 36 million goblins). Ninety percent of adults admit to sneaking a piece or two of candy from their kids’  bags. I say that estimate is about 10 percent too low (Not that I would ever do that…)

• A rather unique program, launched this year by National Childrens Oral Health Foundation  is asking Americans to put a different spin on trick-or-treating, by collecting money for the tooth fairy: Trick or Treat for America’s Toothfairy(true story).

• If you’re in for a good joke, check out this list of Halloween howlers. On that note, I’ll  leave you with my favorite: Do zombies eat popcorn with their fingers? No, they eat the fingers separately. Muah-hahahaha.

Tell us how you’ll be celebrating this year! Just leave us a comment below!

-Liz

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- Babies are born without kneecaps; they don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

- Butterflies taste with their feet.

- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about 10.

- “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to have not had a full moon.

- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

- Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

- No words in the English language rhyme with “month,” “orange,” “silver,” or “purple.”

- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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-  A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

-  A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

-  A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

-  A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

-  A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time representing 1/100th of a second.

-  A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

-  A snail can sleep for three years.

-  Al Capone’s business card said that he was a used furniture dealer.

-  Almonds are a member of the peach family.

-  An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

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-  Most dust particles in your house are made up of shed dead skin cells.

-  The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette company died of lung cancer, along with the first “Marlboro Man.”

-  Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

- Pearls disintegrate in vinegar.

-  The three most valuable brand names on earth are:  Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser—in that order.

-  Cows can walk up stairs with no trouble, but they cannot walk back down them.

-  A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

-  Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet in order to avoid exposure to airborne particles that are projected into the air after a toilet is flushed.

-  Turtles can breathe through their butts.

-  A dime has 118 ridges around its edge.

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these random and useless facts. These were sent to us by a Coffee Break reader.  While we can’t verify the correctness of all of these facts, we think they are funny, interesting, informative and, above all, useless. Perhaps these tidbits will help you win a game show sometime. If so, please remember us. Enjoy!

-  The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

-  No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.

-  Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

-  You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

-  Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

-  The first product to have a bar code printed on its package was Wrigley’s chewing gum.

-  The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.

-  In 1987 alone, American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

-  Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

-  Eating an apple in the morning will wake you up better than caffeine will.

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this cool stuff about pumpkins.

• During the Halloween season, about 99% of the pumpkins grown for domestic consumption are earmarked for the sole purpose of carving Jack O’Lanterns.

• Pumpkin flowers are edible.

• • Many people think the pumpkin is a vegetable but in actuality it is a squash fruit related to cucumbers, gherkins, and melons. Pumpkins consist of 90% water.
  • Besides making a yummy snack, pumpkin seeds are full of zinc, iron, potassium, magnesium, and essential fatty acids.

Enjoy your Coffee Break.