Fun Fact Friday - Spooky Time!

Though I am making this a Halloween fun fact, it probably won't actually be that spooky. I did find some facts about children dying on Halloween, which would certainly qualify as spooky/scary/ominous, but they probably wouldn't qualify as fun. Unless you happen to be Albert Fish, dear reader, which I doubt you are because he was electrocuted twice after killing and eating somewhere in the realm of a hundred children.

But creepy old masochistic serial killers aside... Candy! Costumes! Pumpkin faces! And a fun fact!

Fun fact: Jack-o'-lanterns were originally carved from turnips.

First of all, can I just say how impressed I am by turnip jack-o'-lanterns? I award anyone who carves a turnip lantern +5 points in life. They are smaller. And harder. And creepier looking.

"Hello, I will devour your flesh..." - Turnip T. Lantern

Pumpkin carving in lieu of turnip carving began in the America because turnip carving has to be way more difficult. Seriously. Also because there are pumpkins here. And not so much in Ireland.

Also for those of you of looking for another way to bring your halloween back to its roots (pun always intended), you could carve a mangelwurzel. Because why the fuck wouldn't you?