I heard a truly remarkable fact last night on NPR while brushing my teeth (side note: this really annoys Evie, she hates that I turn on the radio for the 2-3 minutes it takes to brush my teeth and wash my face each night…)

The president of Lion’s Gate Entertainment said that their company owns the rights to Dirty Dancing, and they sell over 2,000 copies of the DVD every single day! This kind of blew my mind.

A little research led me to these facts:

• That’s one copy for every rider of the New Mexico Rail Runner Express on a daily basis (Albuquerque’s mass transit system)
• It’s one copy for every worker Air Canada laid off yesterday due to high fuel costs. Though the numbers line up, a copy of the DVD would be a pretty awful severance package.
• And probably the most apropos fact – it’s one DVD for every liter of methane gas an elephant releases per day.

If you want to join the 2000 club – admission is only 9.99 on Amazon.com.