By: Silvia Cremona
- Autumn leaves do not actually “turn” red, orange, or yellow. Those bright pigments are present inside the leaves all summer long, but they are masked by overwhelming amounts of green chlorophyll. As the days shorten, the tree stops producing chlorophyll, allowing the vibrant hidden colors to show through.
- Folk remedies in early America relied on pumpkin pulp to bleach away facial freckles and soothe snakebites.
- Americans consume roughly 46 million turkeys every single Thanksgiving Day.
