10/97Maximum distance, in feet, that a pumpkin has ever been mechanically hurled without the use of explosives: 2,710
11/04Distance in feet traveled by the winning pumpkin at Delaware’s Punkin Chunkin Competition last year: 4,434.28
Length in feet of the barrel of “The Second Amendment” pumpkin cannon from which it was shot: 150
10/08Percentage change since 2005, due to helium costs, in the price to rent a floating twenty-foot Halloween “scary pumpkin”: +54