25 Funny and Unexpected Trivia Facts About Easter

Leftover onion peels, tree bark, and even flower petals used to be key ingredients to dye eggs. Give it a try yourself by making these unique onion skin-dyed Easter eggs.

Yup, just like Santa Claus, the first Easter bunny was created to ensure kids were well-behaved before Easter started. Treats were only given to good kids, while those who were naughty were left with empty baskets.

You may have noticed, unlike Christmas or Halloween, Easter does not have a fixed date. It is a moveable holiday due to Passover, which is influenced by the moon's cycle each year.

Pastel colors are bright and pretty, and we often connect them to springtime. However, each color also has religious symbolism for Lent, Good Friday, and Easter.

It also contained 548,000 calories so best to eat with a whole bunch of friends. The most expensive feature was the two solitaire diamond eyes.

German settlers that immigrated to the U.S. in the 1700s brought a new Easter tradition. The night before Easter, children would fill their bonnets with hay, and in the morning, they would be overflowing with brightly colored eggs.

Easter really adds up. Between dinner, new outfits for church service, and all of the goodies for the Easter egg hunt, it's a big deal. And if you have kids, expect to spend $250 or more on the festivities. It is estimated that 20.8 billion dollars will be spent on Easter in 2023.

Every Sunday, Christians would celebrate the resurrection of Christ, overtime it evolved into a pagan holiday to celebrate it once a year for the entire day.

In Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus, before being blessed and distributed to congregants. Now they're mostly just a fun way to celebrate the springtime season, especially with creative decorating ideas.

Adults are actually twice as likely to prefer the milky stuff, so keep that in mind if you're buying a sweet Easter surprise. Or try making a homemade treat instead.

While Good Friday is a major holiday for all Catholics, only 12 out of the 50 states consider the Friday before Easter an actual federal holiday. Most of the country will go to work on Good Friday.

The egg symbolizes new life, fertility, and rebirth in many places around the world. Thanks to the rounded shape, it's also been used as a symbol of the earth and our connection with nature.

That's enough jelly beans to circle the globe not once, not twice, but three times — or to fill a plastic egg the size of a nine-story building.

Supposedly, it's because the twists of the pretzel look like arms crossed in prayer. You can pay homage to the sweet treat and all it stands for by making these chocolate pretzel treats at home.

The fluffy bunny stems from the Anglo-Saxon festival of Eastre which featured a spring goddess who used the rabbit to represent fertility. It wasn't until Germans settled in Pennsylvania in the 1700s that the tradition of the bunny that lays eggs came to the states.

Back in the mid-1800s in New York, people believed that buying new clothes to wear on Easter would bring them good luck for the rest of the year. And, lucky for us, the custom continues today.

The world's largest chocolate Easter egg was made in Italy in April 2011. It measured 34 feet and 1.05 inches in length, and weighed approximately 15,873 pounds.

Back in 1933, composer Irving Berlin introduced the Easter Bonnet into American pop culture with his ballad "Easter Parade." Today, it's still one of the most popular songs for the holiday.

The ornate eggs were called pysankas, which were made by using wax and dyes. It wasn't until Ukrainian immigrants came to the U.S. that the colorful custom caught on.

Can you even imagine throwing an egg in church? Well, that's exactly what used to happen. The priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choir boys, he would continue to toss it to his peers, and whoever was holding the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and got to keep it.