HG fun facts again! From 200 Under 200.

• How's this for inventive? Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn decided she wanted to put pieces of chocolate in her cookies, and that's just what she did. She chopped up a Nestle chocolate bar, and mixxed in the bits. The result was so good that she told Nestle, "Hey! Why don't you make little bits of chocolate so I can put them in my cookies?" (Okay, maybe those weren't her exact wors, but you get the picture.)
• The longest distance an uncooked egg has been thrown successfully WITHOUT BREAKING is 323 feet, 2 inches, according to The Guinness World Records. Think of the ginormous (but dirty) omelette that could have been made with all the eggs that BROKE!
• Americans are on the turkey bandwagon, BIG TIME! Since 1970, the amount of turkey eaten in the U.S. has gone up 116 percent, totaling around 17.5 pounds per person each year. (29 percent of it gets gobbled down over the holidays!) Good news for us, bad news for turkeys...
• The word "fajita" is the diminutive form of the Spanish word "faja," meaning "belt" or "girdle." Small belt? That's how we like em!