Halloween is part ghosts and ghouls and part pumpkins. The latter part permeates all facets of life around Halloween — from candy to booze, from food to decorations. Here are some quirky facts and statistics about the multi-purpose food du jour.

You may not be a vampire, phlebotomist, or hematologist, or even know what all those words mean, but you can still learn about blood! You may know there are different types of blood – you may even know your own type – but did you also know that, according to the Japanese, your blood type determines your personality? Or that a girl was banned from shool for bleeding? Check out these bloody facts!

The standard American diet is filled with sugar. We all know sugar is sweet, but it has an unsavory side, too. Sugar is poisoning us, and most of the time we don’t even know just how much we’re consuming. The sweet stuff may not be so sweet after all.

Today, the average man is clean-shaven, and we have, to some measure, lost the honor and nobility of the beard, and with it, the history of that noble facial feature, the memories of men of glorious facial ornament. There are a number of fascinating facts in this long history:

Sexual thoughts enter the average 18 to 30-year-old male’s brain every 52 seconds, and it’s estimated that intercourse is taking place about 2.778 times every 5 seconds around the world. What else didn’t you know about the thing you think about the most?

Are you a living creature? Then, congratulations! You have DNA! That microscopie little building block of life that makes us all the same, but grants us with distinct differences. But for as common as DNA is, it can be a tough subject to understand. Below are some of the facts to help you better understand the little bit of genetic coding that makes you, you!

Craiglist is an online classified community, and has been dubbed the “newspaper killer” for its dominance over traditional print media. It may be the only site that you can use to buy a car, new furniture, look for a job and connect with a casual sex partner in one sitting.

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, will be forever known as one of the greatest musical artists of all time. Jackson sold over 300 million records. Now a little over a year from the date of his death, it is estimated he has already made $1 billion. Check out some other interesting facts about the Moon Walker.

Chances are good you have a Facebook profile. Chances are even better that, if you do have an account, you check it at least once a day. You might be a professional Farmviller or the President of 100 Facebook groups, but do you really know Facebook and what you’ve gotten yourself into? It’s time for a little Facebook re-education.

We all know the internet is big. But did you know it’s so big that it’s practically impossible to measure! With so much information avaible at the touch of a button, it’s easy to see how 70% of people feel that the amount of avaible data is overwhelming. Here’s a little perspective on the internet.