Octuplets Means Eight Babies
Many may have heard about the healthy octuplets recently born in California. A few additional fun facts: the 33-year-old mother already had six kids (for those of you struggling in math, that’s 14 total), she’s not married (power to single moms and all, but seriously?), and originally they didn’t know she was having eight. Meaning they scooped out the seventh, and surprise!

Cutest. Story. Ever.
A few days after New Year’s, a five year old girl and six year old boy in Germany decided to get married. For real. They snuck out of their house early in the morning before their parents woke up, brought the bride-to-be’s older sister as a witness (she’s seven), and walked about a half-mile to the local train station where they hopped on a train to get to Hanover. From there they hoped to catch a plane to Africa, but alas, the three unaccompanied children caught the police’s eye. The initial disappointment over not being able to get married abated when they received a tour of the police station.

Frog Grooms
In other weird child love stories, two Indian girls, both aged seven, married frogs in a remote village. It wasn’t completely random; it’s a tradition based off a legend in which Shiva turns himself into a frog and his wife Parvati (like from Harry Potter!) has to turn into a young girl to trick him into remarrying him. Still, child marriage is illegal. And pretty strange. Luckily for the girls, their new paramours were soon tossed back into the ponds they came from.

Cool Obama Connections
You know that game six degrees of separation? When you try and figure out how many people you’d have to go through to get to someone else? Well, I like to play that with our new president. My main connection: Laura Munoz’s aunt is the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and has meetings with Obama on the reg. Or at least sees him from time to time. That’s three degrees, for those counting.