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Everything you decided ends up here: every day the fact from the day before with the highest share of "love it", every week the winner of the Monday vote, the top 10 and how you all do at True or fake and What came first.

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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