Easter By The Numbers

Via: DegreeSearch.org In the United States, we eat enough candy at Easter to put us into a sugar coma. Delicious milk chocolate eggs, hollow chocolate bunnies, Peeps, jelly beans and more. In 2011, $131 was spent on Easter candy per family, or $14.7 billion dollars total. 90% of Americans plan to buy Easter candy this year, whether or not they celebrate the religious aspect of […] Read more »

Ten Fun Facts About Peeps

Via: DegreeSearch.org Whether you love them or hate them, Peeps marshmallow candies are very popular — especially at Easter. For those that enjoy eating Peeps, competitive eating challenges and Peeps recipes abound. But there’s much more to Peeps than just eating them. College students and professors perform scientific experiments on Peeps, artists create Peeps dioramas, and bored kids throw Peeps in the microwave to see what happens. What do you think? Are Peeps […] Read more »

Awesome Facts About Sweethearts

Conversation hearts are sold every Valentine’s Day in impressive quantities, with cute messages like “BE MINE” and “LOVE ME.” It’s been that way for as long as anyone living can remember, in fact, it’s been that way since 1866? That’s one year after the Civil War ended! That’s when NECCO started printing messages on their candies, though the candies were different lozenge shapes back then: […] Read more »