Spring has sprung! Easter is just two days away and to celebrate the season, we're bringing you a few little known facts about everyone's second favorite candy-related holiday.

• Both eggs and bunnies are symbols of fertility and rebirth; they've been associated with springtime since long before Christianity was a religion.
• Chocolate eggs first became popular in the late 1800s when the Cadbury chocolate company found a way to make chocolate better tasting and easier to digest. Prior to that, it consisted mostly of fat and various starches.

• Solving murder mysteries is popular in Norway during Easter. Newspapers have murder mysteries for their readers to solve, major TV networks run crime shows, and milk cartons have murder mysteries printed on them.
• The word “Easter” was borrowed by early Christians from the name of the Pagan goddess, “Eostre,” in an effort to help Pagan converts assimilate to Christianity.
• Pretzels were originally associated with Easter. The twists were thought to resemble arms crossed in prayer.
• Ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Persians all used dyed eggs in their spring celebrations.
• Enough jellybeans are manufactured in the US each year for Easter to fill a plastic egg the size of a nine-story building. Red ones are the hands-down favorite.

If you celebrate Easter, what's your favorite Easter tradition?