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10 Cool Facts About Easter!

  • During the holiday, more than 90 million chocolate bunnies, 91.4 billion eggs and 700 million Peeps are produced each year in the United States alone. 
  • Seventy-six percent of people eat the ears on the chocolate bunny first, five percent go for the feet and four percent for the tail. 
  • Americans consume more than 16 million jelly beans during this holiday. That is enough jelly beans to circle the globe not once, not twice, but three times. 
  • Children are most likely to name red jelly beans as their favorite Easter candy. 
  • After Halloween, Easter is the biggest candy-consuming holiday of the year.
  • The exchange or giving of Easter eggs actually dates back to before Easter and the giving of eggs is actually considered a symbol of rebirth in many cultures.
  • Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Christ; it is the oldest Christian holiday and one of the most important days of the year. 
  • The term Easter gets its name from Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess who symbolizes the hare and the egg. 
  • The idea of the Easter bunny giving candies and eggs is said to have originated in Germany during the middle ages. 
  • The art of painting eggs is called pysanka, which originated in Ukraine. It involves using wax and dyes to color the egg

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