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Tuesday, 3 November 2026 Colour of the day: Film, Music & Games Advent 1 51 days until Christmas Eve 🕯️ It's Halloween!

The new fact of the week is in. Read it yet?

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Behind every door is a fact you can tell at the table on Christmas Eve. Every fact you open hangs a bauble on your tree.

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🎃 Trick or treat

13 pumpkins are hiding on WTFact

New ones turn up every day until Halloween, somewhere among the facts. Click one: Most of the time it leaves you a sweet. Sometimes it plays a trick on you.

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Found Still hiding Coming soon Golden pumpkin, Halloween night only

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    🎃 The golden pumpkin! Here is your secret Halloween fact:

    The first jack-o’-lanterns were turnips. In Ireland and other Celtic regions in the 19th and early 20th centuries, people carved faces into turnips, sometimes potatoes or beets, and put a candle inside. It was meant to keep away the restless spirit “Stingy Jack”, who was barred from both heaven and hell. The National Museum of Ireland in County Mayo still keeps a plaster cast of a carved turnip from Donegal with “a pinched angry face”.

    Source: Smithsonian Magazine