Childhood Facts

When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.

As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.

The average American child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they graduate from high school.

At age 12, Simon Cowell was arrested for hijacking a bus with a toy gun.

Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers' ranch.

Fred Rogers wore a hand-knitted cardigan in nearly every episode of his show. His mother, Nancy, knitted every single one by hand - each in a different color. She made him a new sweater every Christmas until she died in 1981. Rogers donated his cherry-red cardigan to the Smithsonian in 1984. It is still there.

Rupert Grint became an ice cream man after Harry Potter — not for publicity, but because it had been his childhood dream all along.

Those giant wooden castle playgrounds from the 1980s and 90s were designed by kids. Architect Bob Leathers visited local schools, collected children's drawings, and turned them into blueprints. Then the town's own parents and volunteers built it by hand, usually in about five days. He did this in more than 2,000 communities.