1.First things first: It's an Easter egg roll, not an Easter egg hunt.
2.And an Easter egg roll is basically a race where you compete to push eggs down the White House lawn with a spoon.
3.People have been rolling Easter eggs around Washington, DC, since the 1800s.
4.The very first White House Easter Egg Roll happened after Congress passed a law that literally demanded local youths get off their lawn.
5.Since Capitol police threatened to enforce the law even for children, President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife Lucy opened up the White House gates for festivities two years later, in 1878.
6.When Grover Cleveland was president, revelers waltzed right into the White House for a little extra Easter fun.
7.Black children weren't allowed to attend until 1954, when first lady Mamie Eisenhower invited them to participate.