What's better than a chocolate chip cookie? An even bigger chocolate chip cookie. So how large can these things actually get? Well the world's biggest chocolate chip cookie measured 102 feet in diameter. That's bigger than a full-size basketball court (or two small planes!) and weighed 40,000 pounds. But let's not talk about weight right now. Let's talk about how these gooey, goblicious desserts came to be! It was 1930 at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts, and as the story goes, Ruth Wakefield was busy filling orders for hungry customers when she ran out of baker's chocolate. She made the fateful decision to improvise, dropping chunks of a Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar into the dough- hoping it would melt in and nobody would really notice. Boy was she wrong. So deliciously, wonderfully wrong! In fact, her customers went so wild about the new cookies that even the Nestle Company heard about them. They offered to buy the rights to Ruth's mouth-watering recipe and even to the Toll House name. By 1939, Nestle was selling lots of little yellow bags of small chocolate morsels. Ruth ended up with a lifetime supply, and the famous Toll House cookie recipe has been printed on the back of every bag of Nestle chocolate chips ever since. Can I get some milk please?

Illuminating Moments in American History
From the accidental invention of the microwave to the love story of rubber gloves, these 68 animated video shorts (shadow puppet style!) chronicle the history of unexpected American innovation.

Produced, written, and directed by Nathan Marsh. Art and Animation by Joel West and Isaac Windham. Sound by Scott Sprague. Narration by Carol Munse.