Tutankhamun’s parents were brother and sister.
100 Mind-Blowing Parents Facts
The first stroller was engineered to be pulled by a goat (or animal of similar size). William Kent, a landscape architect, invented the first stroller for the third Duke of Devonshire in 1733. But upper-class parents were hardly expected to put effort into transporting their children around, so Kent designed his model to be pulled by a small animal, like a goat.
Prince William and Prince Harry have a half-sister called Laura who largely stays out of the public eye. She was born in 1978 and her parents are Queen Camilla and her then-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles.
The youngest parents in the world were aged 8 and 9. The parents had their child in China in 1910.
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck. One of the coolest fun facts about Japan: they have a ritual where sumo wrestlers make babies cry. Sounds like a dream for me, but a nightmare for my parents. However, the ritual is said to bring good luck. The Naki Sumo is a 400-year-old Japanese ritual where babies engage in a baby-cry sumo: two sumo wrestlers face each other carrying a baby each. The sumo wrestlers will try to make the babies cry, and the child that cries first or the loudest wins.
A baby can cost new parents 750 hours of sleep. For first-time parents, having a baby can remove 750 hours from their usual total sleeping hours for an entire year.
The first baby stroller was pulled by animals. William Kent invented the first stroller for the 3rd Duke of Devonshire in 1733. However, it did not have handles for parents. Instead, the strollers were pulled by goats, dogs, or miniature horses.
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos once made parents panic. One of the interesting facts about your favourite snack: When a kid eats too Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, the chemicals turn their stool red. Medically speaking, red stool indicates serious intestinal problems, possibly internal bleeding. You can imagine why the parents reacted like that.
Koalas feed their newborn’s poop. After baby koalas are born, their parents feed them poop. This helps them digest Eucalyptus leaves as they grow.
In a 2007 study in Taiwan, about 59.3% of children studied had been forced to convert from left-handedness. Asia is notorious for collectivist societies, and this shows how some parents might force their children to change handedness to be more “normal”.
All cereal box characters look down, and it’s because of psychology. You may have a lot of fond memories of your favourite childhood cereal, but we bet you missed this detail: all the characters’ eyes on the boxes look downwards. It’s not decreed in the cereal code, but they are illustrated like that to make eye contact with children from the grocery shelf. Doing this would grab kids’ attention and make it more likely for them to ask their parents to buy cereal.
His parents were German-American, and he was raised in a strict Lutheran household.
Left-handedness can run in families, so if your parents are left-handed, you’re more likely to be too.
Azara’s owl monkeys are more monogamous than humans. They live together as families, with two parents and offspring, for up to nine years or when one of the parents dies. Fathers are highly involved in caring for their young.
Most parents feel like their babies grow fast, and those with teenagers often feel they cannot keep enough food for their growing kids. Yet, human children have nothing on Blue Whales. The offspring of these mammals can grow up to 200 pounds in a single day. This rapid growth rate can last an entire year.
You may have heard redheads are going extinct. This is not true. The gene that results in red hair is recessive, so both parents must carry it to produce a red-headed child. However, this fact also means that redheads can pop up generations down the line.