Knocked-Up Numbers
Days of the world’s longest pregnancy, by Beulah Hunter, who bore daughter Penny Diana in Los Angeles in 1945: 375
Percent of mothers who experience changes in their sense of taste or smell during pregnancy: 76
Odds of a baby being born with some teeth: 1 in 2,000
Year the first baby was born in Antarctica: 1978
Drop in ounces of the average birth weight in the U.S. from 1990 to 2005: 1.83
Day decrease in the average length of pregnancy during the same period: 2.4
Range among various websites’ claims in how many times its normal size the uterus expands during pregnancy: 20 to 1,000
April Anniversaries
Year Friedrich Froebel, honored on April 21, Kindergarten Day, established the world’s first kindergarten in Germany: 1837
Year Welch’s introduced concord-grape jelly, a favorite for peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches, which are celebrated annually on April 2: 1923
Number of peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches the average American eats by the time he graduates from high school: 1,500
Weight in pounds of the world’s largest PB and J sandwich, made in Grand Saline, Texas, in November 2010: 1,342
Percent of people making a PB and J who put peanut butter on first: 96
Number of recipes for peanut butter sandwiches, including peanut butter and pickle, in Florence Cowles’s 1928 book “Seven Hundred Sandwiches:” 33
Sources: Time.com, Howstuffworks.com, Baby.lovetoknow.com, Baby-names-now.com, Reuters.com, HolidayInsights.com, Pacific.edu, NationalPeanutBoard.org, Tylerpaper.com, Foodtimeline.org.
