Easter Fun Facts
From Marshmallow Peeps to Fabrege eggs, impress your friends and family with a little Easter trivia.
A symphony of 700,000,000 Marshmallow Peeps, and their silent partner, chocolate bunnies, are typically consumed by Americans during Easter season.
In 1885 Russian Czar Alexander III commissioned Master Jeweler Peter Carl Faberge to make a fabulously bejeweled Imperial Easter Egg as an Easter day surprise for his wife, Czarina Maria Gydorovna. She loved the gift so much, the Czar commissioned 56 more. The current value for a single Imperial Egg is about $6,000,000.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, 600,000,000 eggs are usually sold in America during the months of March and April, or Easter season.
The movie Easter Parade is released in 1948. This MGM musical romance spectacular starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire ends up winning one Oscar for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Easter egg dye is marketed at a whopping 5-cents a packet for the first time in 1880 by Pharmacist William Townley of Newark, NJ.
The jellybean pops on to the scene in 1861. An advertisement promotes the sending of jellybean treats to soldiers in the Union Army. By 1998 jellybean consumption for the Easter season totals 15 billion. If these beans were lined up end-to-end they would circle the globe almost three times.
A tradition since 1878, every year on Easter Monday, the White House hosts an annual Easter Egg Roll for children and their parents.
According to Candy USA, when taking a bite into a chocolate bunny, 76% of Americans prefer to bite off the ears first. 5% eat the feet first and 4% eat the tail first.
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