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Potential weight (in pounds) of giant pumpkins (an official classification), according to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center. Americans consume about 5 pounds of pumpkin per person per year—most of it in the fall. Some 90% of all canned pumpkin is produced by one firm—Libby. More than 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkin are grown each year in the U.S. Illinois (who knew?) is the leading state.

Corkscrews were first used for guns.

Answer: True.

In the fifteenth century, the progenitors of wine corkscrews were corkscrews used as gun cleaning tools. By the 18th century, wine corkscrews were expensive implements, owned by the upper classes and intended only for expensive wines since only expensive wines were bottled with corks driven flush with the top of the neck of the bottle. It wasn’t until well into the nineteenth century, with the growth of the middle class and the growing prevalence of bottled wine, that the corkscrew became a common tool among large numbers of the populace in wine drinking countries.

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John Fox, owner of once-leading wine retailer Premier Cru, admitted scamming at least $45 million dollars from his customers. As part of the massive Ponzi scheme, an estimated 4,500 customers paid some $45 million for… Continue reading

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