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