父親節你不知道的十大趣聞
1. More than 1.5 billion fathers will be celebrated on Sunday for Father's Day.
週日將有超過15億位父親慶祝父親節。
2. Father's Day was actually invented... by a woman! Sonora Smart Dodd proposed the idea in Washington in 1910. Her mother died during childbirth leaving her father William, a civil war veteran, to raise her and her four siblings alone.
其實，發明父親節的……是一位女士!1910年，索娜拉·斯瑪特·杜德在華盛頓提出了這個想法。杜德女士的母親死於難產，父親是一位內戰老兵，獨自一人將索娜拉及四個兄弟姐妹撫養長大。
3. According to greetings card makers Hallmark, Father's Day is the fifth-largest card-sending day.
據賀卡製作公司Hallmark的統計，父親節是第五大發送賀卡最多的日子。
4. In Germany, Father's Day is celebrated by getting drunk with wagons of beer and indulging in regional food.
在德國，人們慶祝父親節的方式是狂飲整車啤酒，直到酩酊大醉，還會盡情享用當地美食。
5. The rose is the official flower of Father's Day.
玫瑰花是父親節的官方節慶花朵。
6. Not every country celebrates this occasion in June - In Thailand, Father's Day falls on December 5 - the birthday of the current King. In Australia it is the first Sunday of September, while in Finland it is the second Sunday in November.
並不是每個國家都在6月慶祝父親節。泰國在12月5日慶祝父親節，因爲那天是當今國王的生日;澳大利亞在9月的第一個星期天慶祝父親節;而芬蘭的父親節是11月的第二個星期天。
7. Female shoppers on average spend 50% more on their fathers than men.
在爲父親買禮物時，平均女性比男性多花一半的錢。
8. 3% of fathers living with dependent children are lone fathers.
3%與成年子女同住的父親是鰥夫。
9. In 2008 thousands of primary pupils in Scotland were prevented from making Father's Day cards at school for fear of embarrassing classmates who lived with single mothers.
2008年，蘇格蘭數千位小學生被禁止在學校裏製作父親節卡片，因爲擔心會讓那些與單身母親一起生活的同學們感到尷尬。
10. Russian Feodor Vassilyev is thought to be father to the most children. He and his first wife Valentina had sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets between 1725 and 1765 - a total of 69 children. Feodor later had 18 children with his second wife, bringing his grand total to 87. However, some historians have thrown doubt on the claims.
據說俄羅斯男子費奧多爾·瓦西爾耶維是孩子最多的父親。他和第一任妻子瓦倫蒂娜從1725年到1765年共生育了16對雙胞胎、7對三胞胎和4對四胞胎，總共是69個孩子。後來，費奧多爾又與第二任妻子生了18個孩子。所以，他共有多達87個孩子。但是，一些歷史學家質疑這種說法。
