5 fun facts about pumpkins 🎃 🥧 The staple dessert at Thanksgiving we all know and love as pumpkin pie didn’t exist at the first Thanksgiving. In fact, the pie we know today wasn’t even invented here in America, it came from England in the 1700’s. Early American colonists learned how to make pumpkin pie from the Native Americans who used the pumpkin not as the filling, but also as the crust. 🐍 Early American folk medicine taught that pumpkin flesh could be used to remove freckles and treat snake bites. Some cultures still teach that the seeds remove parasites like tapeworms. 🌎 Although native to central America pumpkins are now grown on every continent in the world, except Antarctica. 🏋🏽 There’s more than 45 different varieties of pumpkins and the largest ever grown weighed 2,749 pounds grown by Travis Gienger 🎃 95% of all processed pumpkins come from the state of Illinois! #pumpkin #facts #education #thanksgiving #shilohfarm