Approximate number of hours that the average American watches TV every month at home, a 1.2 percent increase from last year, according to the results of Nielsen's Three Screen Report: 153

FIRST TO LAST

When asked what they found difficult about taking time off from work for vacation, percentage of respondents who stated that it was their first day back after vacation, according to a Randstad Work Watch survey of full-time employed adults: 77

Percentage of participants who found the last day in the office before vacation to be difficult: 44

AIRPORT CONNECTION

Percentage of business travelers who indicated wi-fi was the most important airport amenity, outscoring basic travel needs such as food by nearly 30 percentage points, according to a study conducted by American Airlines Customer Research and HP: 47

WHAT WE OWE

Percentage of consumers who are carrying nonmortgage debt, according to the 2009 survey of financial values and debt sponsored by Securian Financial Group: 82

Percentage of baby boomers in debt who owe at least $50,000 in nonmortgage debt, a 10-point spike from the 2007 survey: 20 (Boomers were the only generation in the survey — it included Generations Y, X and the Silent Generation — to add debt since 2007.)

END OF ONE ERA

Year that two of the nation's most notorious — and romanticized — criminals, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, were killed in an ambush staged by law officers in Gibsland, La., according to the U.S. Census Bureau: 1934

Estimated number of murders they were accused of committing during a two-year series of bank robberies from Missouri to Texas: 12

POOLING ANSWERS

Percentage of Americans who believe their fellow swimmers participate in unhygienic pool behavior, according to a survey conducted by the Water Quality and Health Council: 84

IDLE THOUGHT

"Only the madman is absolutely sure."

— Robert Anton Wilson, novelist