Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Sep 5, 2017

Human Nature:

Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That's according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy. The Washington Postsays if you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people, equal to more than the entire population of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
For the record, chocolate milk is milk with cocoa and sugar added.
We might mock people for not knowing this, but experts in agriculture, nutrition and education have griped for years that many Americans are "agriculturally illiterate." In other words, they don't know where food is grown, how it gets to stores --or even, in the case of chocolate milk, what's in it. One Department of Agriculture study, commissioned in the early 1990s, found that nearly one in five adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef. (Bartha)

Lowering expectations:

If you have fines from overdue library books, don't try to pay them like this.
The Peabody Institute Library in Danvers, Massachusetts, is reminding patrons they can't pay their fines with game tokens from Chuck E. Cheese. Staff members say there's been a surge lately in people trying to pay their fines with tokens from the pizza and arcade chain. The library says, unfortunately, the tokens are not considered legal tender.
FYI: Chuck E. Cheese is a restaurant and entertainment center for kids founded in California's Silicon Valley by NOLAN BUSHNELL, who also created the Atari video game system. (Still)

On, off and way-off-Broadway:

How's this for perfect? ADELE is in talks to play Nancy in a revival of the musical, "Oliver!" The UK newspaper The Sun says she's been chatting with West End big shot Sir CAMERON MACKINTOSH about it because she wants to something her four-year-old son, ANGELO would enjoy. No word on whether this will be for a London stage revival, or a movie remake. (Marino)

Reality Round-Up:

It now appears that singer BOBBY BROWN will *not* be a contestant on the upcoming season 25 of "Dancing With the Stars."
Us Weeklyreports he was originally slated to be on the show, but bowed out at the last minute, after producers couldn't come to an agreement for his contract.
The celebrity dancers on the show are set to be revealed tomorrow (Tuesday) on "Good Morning America."