A few fun pumpkin facts while you are munching your candy harvest and contemplating Orange NJ invisalign dental work to fix what that nasty caramel did to your bridgework.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau: The US major pumpkin states produce more than one billion pounds of pumpkins annually, worth over $100 million. Illinois is the leading pumpkin producer. California, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York come in right behind Illinois.

The largest pumpkin ever recorded is a 1,725 pound monster grown this year in Ohio.