Motley mix
Year the U.S. Food Administration first urged Americans to adopt “Meatless Monday,” to conserve resources during the war: 1917
Year the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with the endorsement of 20 other schools of public health, reintroduced Meatless Monday to lessen people’s risk of preventable disease: 2003
Number of restaurants that have joined local hospitals and schools in offering only non-meat dishes on Monday in Aspen, Colo., which in June 2011 became the country’s first Meatless Monday Community: More than 20
Percent of children who, given a million dollars, say they would save it for college: 49
Years since the founding of Scholastic Inc., the world’s biggest publisher of children’s books: 91
Number of school book fairs Scholastic holds every year in 28 countries: More than 170,000
Percent of McDonald’s Happy Meal consumers who choose fresh apple slices over French fries: 11
Frightening figures
Number of years in a row the most popular baby boy’s name in the U.S. has been Jacob, the name of a leading character in the Twilight vampire romance series of books and movies: 12
Number of years in a row the most popular baby girl’s name in the U.S. has been Bella, also the name of a leading character in the Twilight series: 2
Cost for a pair of non-prescription contact lenses, available for Halloween in such varieties as solid black, bull’s-eye pattern, and bloodshot: $29–$239
Number of calories in one Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup: 110
Number of calories in half a cup of pumpkin seeds: 160
Sources: MeatlessMonday.com, HuffingtonPost.com, Scholastic, Success, Foxborough.patch.com, Breitbart, Coloryourcontacts.com, Newsmax, Entertainment Close-Up, The Washington Post, Runner’s World
