On the 10th of May, the world celebrated Mother’s Day. The day when suddenly all social media sites witness unified posts containing pictures, selfies, statuses, check-ins of and with mothers. It’s a nice day for a mother to make their kids do some extra chores, which the kids would love doing (or not). So as we celebrate this occasion, Edcoogle presents before you some mother’s day facts that is bound to amaze you.

1. President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 issued a presidential proclamation that officially celebrated first Mother’s day holiday in the honor of America’s Mothers. Mother’s day was celebrated before that time too but it was not until Wilson lobbied Congress in 1914 that Mother’s Day was officially set on the second Sunday of every May.

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2. Mother’s Day was the most important Sunday on the organised crime calendar. Joe Pistone, an FBI undercover agent, says that the mafia often closed for business when Mother’s Day arrived each May.

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3. Mother’s Day started as a day for mourning women to honor fallen soldiers. ‘Mother’s Friendship Day’ organised in 1868 allowed mothers of Union and Confederate soldiers to get together.

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4. Celebrating mothers wasn’t the reason for the earliest celebration of Mother’s Day in the U.S. U.S. women’s group in the late 1800’s came together in West Virginia to look after everything from infant mortality to diseases to children.

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5. Anna Jarvis, the founder of the modern Mother’s Day celebration, never had any children but wanted to honor her own mother’s wishes of having a day just for mothers.

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6. Celebrations of mothers and motherhood is as old as the earliest civilisations. It can be traced to ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian societies.

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7. The word ‘Mother’ in most languages begins with the letter M.

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8. All family names in Chinese culture begin with a symbol that means mother.

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9. Elephants and polar bears are two species that are considered to have the best mothers. Elephant mothers endure 22-month long pregnancies, while polar bear mothers double their weight in order to prevent its body from absorbing the foetus.

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10. Mother’s Day is celebrated in different parts of the world in close to 50 countries.

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11. Carnations are very popular flowers for Mother’s Day that are thought to be made from the tears of Jesus’ mother Mary when she wept at his feet the day he was crucified.

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12. In the former Yugoslavia, children would tie up their mother on Mother’s Day. In order to be freed she had to pay them with treats.

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13. Hindu scripture credits the Great Mother, Kali Ma, with the invention of writing through alphabets, pictographs and beautiful sacred images.

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