1. The Oreo Sandwich Cookie has been America's most popular cookie since 1912, when it was introduced.

2.  The Oreo was not named after the Greek word for mountain,
which is oreo.  Allegedly according to Nabisco historians, the Oreo Sandwich Cookie was named by taking the "re" out of creme and squishing it, like a cookie sandwich, between the two letters "o" from the word chocolate.

3.  The Oreo® cookie has been America's most popular cookie since it was introduced in 1912. More than 345 billion Oreo® cookies have been consumed to date.

4. The Golden Gate Bridge (4,200 feet) is 28,800 Oreo cookies long.

5. The St. Louis Arch is 630 feet tall; in Oreos, it is 15,120 cookies high.

6. If every Oreo cookie ever made (more than 490 billion) were stacked on top of each other, the pile would reach to the moon and back more than six times.

7. If all the Oreos ever made were placed side-by-side, they would encircle the earth 516 times (at the Equator).

8. The amount of Oreo crème filling  used in one year would ice 6,126  three-tier wedding cakes.

9. If all the OREO cookies sold to date were stacked on top of each other, the height of the stack would be equivalent to the height of 9.8 million Sears Towers. The Sears Tower is 1,454 feet tall.

10. The floral design on the oreo cookie consists of 12 flowers per side.

11. The 345 billion Oreo cookies sold to date would fill up the world's largest freight train, consisting of 660 freight cars, more than 45 times.

12. More than 7.5 billion Oreo® cookies are consumed each year, which comes out to 625 million per month and 20.5 million per day.

13. In order to keep up with this voluminous demand, the Oreo® cookie recipe calls for 18 million pounds of cocoa and 47 million pounds of creme filling. An Oreo® cookie is 29% creme, 71% cookie

14. After the National Biscuit Company introduced the Oreo in 1912, its face underwent a few rounds of adjustments (one version had two pairs of turtledoves) before today's design was finalized in 1952.

15. Almost half of all U.S. households purchased a package of Oreo cookies in 2006.

16. Oreo cookies are sold in over 100 countries around the world

17. The Original Oreo, followed by Double Stuf, are the most widely liked cookies among kids and teens.

18. Double Stuf is a popular evening snack: over 40 percent of Double Stuf Oreo cookies are eaten in the evening.