25 Interesting Facts About Mothers
1. Leonardo DiCaprio got his name from his pregnant mother, who was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in an Italian museum when DiCaprio was born.– Source
2. When chimp babies die, their mothers may hold and groom their bodies before they are able to move on.– Source
3. Mr. Rogers' mother knitted every sweater he wore in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. – Source
4. In Washington, a pregnant single mother was arrested for welfare fraud in 2014 after a DNA test found she wasn't the mother of her own children. Doctors discovered she was a chimera when she returned for follow-up examinations.
5. Niccolo Paganini, widely regarded as the greatest violin virtuoso of all time, was so amazing that he was rumored to be the Devil's son or to have traded his soul for his talent. As a result, in order to show that he had human parents, he was forced to post his mother's letters to him.
6. An adopted man in Michigan spent four years looking for his birth mother before discovering that she worked at the same Lowe's store as he did. Neither of them had any idea.
7. Tupac's song "Dear Mama" was inducted into The Library of Congress Registry in 2010, with The LOCR describing it as "a touching and eloquent tribute to both the murdered rapper's own mother and all mothers struggling to sustain a family in the face of addiction, poverty, and societal indifference."
8. During World War I, Germans kidnapped Capt Robert Campbell, a British prisoner of war. He was given permission to visit his dying mother, but he kept his promise to Kaiser Wilhelm II and returned to Germany from Kent, where he remained until the war ended in 1918.
9. Ernest Hemingway's mother (author, soldier, hunter, boxer, and alcoholic) used to dress young Ernest and his older sister in matching pink flowery dresses (and identical outfits) to satisfy her obsessive urge to be the mother of twin girls instead.
10. Actor Jack Nicholson didn't realize his supposed "sister," June, was really his mother until he was 37 years old.
11. A super-athlete female gecko was born after two species of geckos mated, and she refused to have sex with the other geckos. Instead, she spawned new versions of herself, who then spawned new versions of themselves, resulting in a vigorous, fast-moving mutant race of mother geckos cloning daughter geckos.
12. The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, received only one vote. After receiving a letter from his mother urging him to "do the right thing," Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Amendment, and it passed the legislature when Harry Burn, a young senator, changed his vote to "yes."
13. Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs made the financial sacrifice of staying in college for four years rather than going straight to the NBA because his dying mother made him promise to finish college with a degree in her final days.
14. The busiest day for phone calls is Mother's Day, but the busiest day for collect calls is Father's Day.
15. Hugh Hefner's father, a public accountant, turned him down for funding to start Playboy because he didn't think the magazine would be a good business investment. As he was about to leave, his mother pulled him aside and gave him a $1000 check from her savings to help him with his company.
16. Fetal cells can move into their mothers' brains, and a son's DNA can appear in his mother's brain.
17. Amir Vehabovic, a Bosnian man, staged his own death, including falsifying a death certificate and bribing undertakers. He was only interested in seeing who would attend his funeral. Just his mother turned up, so the joke was on him.
18. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a box office flop due to mothers' concerns that the lessons were "too cruel" for children to grasp.
19. Women imprisoned at the Decatur Correctional Center in Decatur, Illinois, are allowed to keep their babies with them for up to two years. In comparison to the statewide average of 51.3 percent, the mothers have a recidivism rate of 0%.
20. After learning that farmers were excluded from being drafted, Minnie Schönberg, the Marx brothers' mother, purchased a farm and forced the brothers to work on it so that they would not be called to serve in World War 1.
21. The government provides a free "starter kit" of baby clothing, bedding, nappies, and toys to all pregnant mothers in Finland. Since the bedding fits inside the case, it can be used as a crib.
22. Aryan mothers who dedicated their lives to raising children were honored with the Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter (Mother's Cross) and were revered civil servants who were saluted on the streets by Hitler's Youth during the Third Reich.
23. Octopus mothers have been known to eat their own arms in order to defend their eggs. Even if they need to find food, they will not leave the nests until the eggs hatch.
24. After learning that pregnant women were used as guinea pigs and thrown into the crematorium, a Jewish gynecologist vowed that “never again will there be a pregnant woman in Auschwitz.” She is believed to have performed 3,000 abortions in the expectation that the mother will survive and be able to bear children later.
25. The word "mom" is the same in all languages.
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