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Fill Your Basket with these Easter Facts

Patch rounds up some fun—and funny—facts about the Easter holiday.

Every Easter-celebrating family has its own traditions centered around rebirth, renewal and, in most cases, chocolate bunnies.

Whether you'll spend the day coloring Easter eggs or stuffing yourself silly during Sunday brunch, Romeoville Patch found some fun Easter facts to get you in the mood:

  • The average American will spend $131.04 on Easter food and swag this year, the National Retail Federation said. That’s up from $118.60 in 2010, the trade group’s survey reported.
  • The White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll is its busiest day of the year, reports USA Today
  • Talk about an Easter basket: According to Ripley’s Believe it or Not, Polish girls used to decorate up to 100 Easter eggs, which they would give to their boyfriends.
  • If you thought your family’s egg hunt was competitive, its nothing compared to Bulgaria’s egg tradition. They play a game where they try to break each other’s eggs, according to TLC. If you have the last egg standing, supposedly your year will be the brightest.
  • Would you wait 27 hours for a marshmallow Peep? That’s how long Peep-maker Just Born says it took to make a single sugary treat in 1953. These days it takes about six minutes.
  • The Easter Bunny has German origins, according to Fact Monster. But the “Easter Hare” in the German story is certainly a wonder of nature: He laid eggs.
  • People send about 57 million Easter cards each year, ranking Easter fifth among holidays, according to Hallmark.
  • The website www.eeggs.com is an archive of “Easter eggs” in movies, computer software and TV shows. But these eggs aren’t the type for dyeing. They’re the secret novelty images or references directors and software developers hide in media as an inside joke or surprise.

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