1. In 2007, U-S hospital emergency rooms treated an estimated 98-hundred people for fireworks related injuries.
2. Early fireworks were exploded for the sound until chemicals were added for color, starting in Italy in the 1830′s.
3. Disney World has more than 1,000 fireworks shows every year.
4. Sparklers can burn at a very high temperature, well over the boiling point of water.
5. Children ages 5 to 14 are two and a half times more likely to get injured by fireworks than the general population.
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