Father's Day Trivia and Interesting Facts

1. There are 1.5bn fathers worldwide. Each year, 122m children are born wordlwide.

2. Unlike in the UK and America when Father’s Day is on the third Sunday in June, in Australia Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in September

3. The necktie is the most popular of all Father's Day gifts, while hammers and golf clubs are also popular presents

4. Father’s Day the fifth-largest card-sending occasion in America, with almost 100 million Father’s Day cards sent annually

5. In the UK 7 million Father's Day cards are sent each year, compared to13 million Mother's Day cards

6. Robin Williams and Billy Crystal starred in the 1997 comedy Father’s Day, who’s tagline was “One kid. Two dads. A who done it”

7. Famously Mark Twain said the following about his father: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

8. American rapper Father MC released an album titled Father’s Day in 1990. It included his top 20 single I’ll Do 4 U, which featured Mary J Blige on backing vocals.

9. In the USA Father’s Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent

10. 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.