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Did you know?  1. The term Easter egg also means a hidden message, cryptic reference, iconic image, or inside joke, fans are intended to discover. 2. The eggshell was seen as a symbol of the tomb from which Jesus emerged, while the egg itself represented new life.  3. The Easter hare was first mentioned in German writings in the 1500s. 4. Eostre, a Germanic goddess was known as "the Goddess of the Dawn." Ancient believers held a big festival around Spring Equinox which involved feasts, giant bonfires, and sword dances.  5. Eostre entertained groups of children, transforming her pet bird into a pet rabbit which could lay eggs. 6. The story evolved, morphing into the legend of the ‘Osterhase’ – an egg-laying hare who hid eggs.  7.  18th-century German immigrants brought the 'Osterhase' tradition to Pennsylvania and it spread across the country.  8. The Easter hare became an Easter bunny, and real eggs were replaced with molded chocolate eggs. 9. Chocolate eggs were made

Did you know? 1. The great black-backed gull is the largest member of the gull family.  2. It is very aggressive, frequently hunting and killing any prey smaller than themselves, by swallowing whole most food, including fish and even other gulls.  3. They rely on aggression, physical strength and endurance, and can attack other flying birds, pursuing them by jabbing with their bill, hoping to  create an open wound or exhaust their prey. 4. They grow to 64–79 cm (25–31 in) long, 1.5–1.7 m (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 7 in) by wingspan and 0.75–2.3 kg (1.7–5.1 lb) 5. The oldest recorded age for a wild great black-backed gull is 27.1 years. 6. The Pacific Gull (pictured), the largest black backed gull in Australia, has an enormous yellow bill, tipped red, as if dipped in paint.  7. It drops crabs or sea urchins onto rocks from the air, at about 10 to 15 metres while flying, in order to break them open.  8. They are the gulls in Finding Nemo which say "mine." 9. The native to the coasts of