THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon has sold — including paper books for which there are no Kindle books available — it has sold 105 Kindle books. Yep, Kindles are now out-selling regular books.
• Home births in the U.S. last year were up 28%. That’s among non-Hispanic women.
• KENTUCKY OKAYS BIBLICAL THEME PARK _ The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority has granted approval to spend $40 million in tax rebates to build a biblical theme park called “The Ark Encounter.” The project will actually cost $172 million and will include the ark, a replica of the Tower of Babel, lecture halls, shops, theaters and, of course, a petting zoo.
• THE BACHELORETTE _ Ashley Hebert, who competed for Brad Womack’s affection, gets a second chance at love beginning tonight when The Bachelorette returns on ABC.
• A 14-year-old in Texas was seriously injured after trying to skateboard while holding onto a moving SUV.  Before you ask where his parents were . . . his dad was driving the SUV.
• A woman in California was arrested in a Federal sting . . . for trying to sell an actual moon rock to an undercover NASA agent for $1.7 million?

• Chrysler is actually going to repay the $7.5 billion bailout loan it needed to survive back in 2008.
• “SNL” star Fred Armisen, the guy who plays President Barack Obama on the show, and star Elisabeth Moss, who plays Peggy Olson on “Mad Men,” have officially divorced.
• Cosmopolitan reports a study from the University of Albany survey found 59% of men say they have ended a relationship over a bad kiss.
• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released a preparedness guide for a “zombie apocalypse” in an effort to be “better safe than sorry.”
• Sarah Palin’s eldest son, Track, recently married his high school sweetheart, Britta Hanson, in a small ceremony in Hatcher Pass, Alaska.
• Kate Gosselin has been ordered to pay a marriage counselor $10,000.
• Cee Lo Green says he and the rest of the judges on “The Voice” will be back for season 2.
• “Titanic” is going to be re-released next year in 3-D!
• Jennifer Aniston’s steady, as of late: Justin Theroux.
• NEWS ATTACK! _ Russell Brand was deported from Japan over the weekend for past crimes. [Evidently, Japanese officials had seen the remake of Arthur.]

• It was a sweet accident in Indiana. A truck smashed into a guardrail on highway ramp and… Exclusive InterPrep/PROcontent.
• PIRATES SETS GLOBAL RECORD _ The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film sailed to an international box office record over the weekend. In North America Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides made $90.1 million. That figure, added to the international box office take, helped the movie make $346.4 million Friday-Sunday .