I have always been a “trivia buff.”
Little known facts that amount to absolutely nothing are intriguing to me. I often wonder how people know or find out certain things.
Today I will enlighten you on some little known facts about everything from our language to who invented the scissors.
- Stewardesses is the longest word typed only with the left hand.
- Lollipop is the longest word typed with your right hand.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,’ uses every letter of the alphabet.
- Typewriter is the longest word that can be typed only on the top row of the keyboard.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- Babies are born without kneecaps - they don’t appear until a child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
- There are 2 words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Winston Churchill was born in the ladies’ room during a dance.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Hope you enjoy this week’s recipes - I’ve got a sweet tooth.
Thanks for reading.
BUTTERFINGER BLONDIES
3/4 cup butter, melted
2 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
3 large eggs
2½ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 (2.1 ounces) Butterfinger candy bars, chopped
1 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray a 13 x 9 inch baking pan with nonstick spray. In a large bowl, combine melted butter and brown sugar, stirring until combined. Add eggs and stir until mixture is smooth. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to butter mixture, stirring until combined. Stir in chopped candy bars, chocolate morsels and vanilla. Spoon into prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes or until bars are set in the center. Cool and cut into squares for serving.
MAGIC CHOCOLATE CHIP BARS
1 (16.5 ounces) roll refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
1 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
1 cup toffee bits
1 cup butterscotch flavored morsels
1 cup chopped pecans
1 (14 ounces) can sweetened condensed milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 15 x 10 inch jelly roll pan with nonstick cooking spry.
With floured hands, press cookie dough evenly into bottom of prepared pan.
Bake for 8 minutes.
Sprinkle chocolate morsels, toffee bits, butterscotch morsels and pecans over hot cookie crust.
Drizzle evenly with condensed milk.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until very lightly browned. Let cool completely before cutting into bars for serving.
CHOCOLATE MILK BALL BROWNIES
3/4 cup butter
6 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1 cup sugar
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup malted milk powder
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped malted milk balls
Your favorite canned or homemade chocolate frosting
Additional chopped malted milk balls
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Line a 13 x 9 inch baking pan with aluminum foil.
Spray foil with nonstick cooking spray.
In a small saucepan combine butter and chocolate.
Cook over medium low heat until melted and smooth. Set aside to cool.
In a large bowl, beat sugars, malted milk powder and eggs at medium speed until fluffy.
In a small bowl, combine flour and salt.
Gradually add to sugar mixture, beating until combined. Add melted butter, beating until combined.
Stir in malted milk balls. Spoon batter into prepared pan, and bake for about 25 minutes or until brownies are set in center.
Let cool completely and spread chocolate frosting on top.
Garnish with additional chopped malted milk balls.
