Here at Techspoofs we love Halloween and being strong proponents of Bringing The Truth ™ our favorite part of Halloween is giving people all sorts of trivia about this holiday. While you’re out celebrating the harvest by buying a sexy nurses outfit and throwing candy at 8 year olds, whip out your iPhone and enjoy these.

Halloween is a harvest celebration, brought over from Europe — you know, that place across the ocean where they invented crepes and socialism.

Bill Gates has a full sized, hermetically sealed replica of Darth Vader’s costume from the original Star Wars trilogy. He promises to don it and bring blood and terror to the countryside one Halloween, sometime around 2012.

Tootsie rolls were the first wrapped candy brought to America.

Tootsie is a comedy with Dustin Hoffman, that is loosely based around a Halloween prank he played one year where he decided to dress up like a actor.

Bobbing for apples originated in Rome and is based on a celebration to honor Pamona — goddess of the fruit trees. During the celebrating they would bob for apples, figs and the decapitated heads of state enemies.

Halloween candy sales average about 2 billion dollars annually in the United States, followed closely by generic Viagra.

Jack o’ lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday. We used Pumpkins because turnips aren’t as fun to smash the day afterwards.

You can find these and other fun facts about Halloween in our upcoming book, Things You Didn’t Know About Halloween Because The Establishment Says They’re Lies. Coming to soon to an Amazon shopping cart near you.

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