The Wacky Story Behind the Great Stork Derby

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Embed from Getty ImagesPeople today tend to put a lot of thought into whether and when to have children, and how many. A hundred years ago, the more pressing task was how to avoid it. In 1926, a contest in Toronto pitted women against each other to see how many children they could bear in ten years, with the prize being unimaginable riches. The consolation prize was a house full of children.The idea came from wealthy lawyer Charles Vance Millar, who had a wicked sense of humor and no heirs upon