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The Easter Bunny is, you know, a bunny. Where did it get all those eggs?
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The Easter hare myth dates back to Germany sometime before the 1680s .
The original version of the rabbit didn’t just carry the eggs -- it actually laid the eggs.
Who came up with the myth of an egg-laying hare? No one really knows.
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