May it figures

Cookie count

Years since Oreo cookies were invented: 100

Cost for a pound of Oreos in 1912: 30 cents

Online cost for a pound from Walmart in 2012: $2.98

Approximate number of Oreo cookies Nabisco has produced worldwide: 500 billion

Percent of homemade cookies that are chocolate chip: 50

Number of different images of the fictitious Betty Crocker that General Mills has used since her creation in 1936: 8

Mums’ sums

Years, starting in 1906, that it took Mother’s Day founder Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia to persuade nearly all 46 states to observe the holiday: 3

Years after it became a national holiday, in 1914, that Jarvis filed and lost a lawsuit to stop the over-commercialization of Mother’s Day: 9

Percent of Mother’s Day cards bought by daughters: 83

Sources: World of Wonder, Delish.com, New York Post, Walmart.com, Best-ever-cookie-collection.com, Real Simple, Mothersdayworld.com, Mindbodythoughts.blogspot.com