Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
1. The word “footage” came about because film was measured in FEET.
2. The first athlete ever to get a million-dollar endorsement deal was . . . a bowler. A champion named Don Carter got a $1 million deal in 1964 to endorse bowling balls from a company called Ebonite.
3. The U.S. city with the highest concentration of millionaires is . . . Los Alamos, New Mexico, with 12.4% of households having at least $1 million in assets. That’s mostly because of all the chemists, engineers, and physicists working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
4. A guy named William Willett invented Daylight Saving Time . . . and his great-great-grandson is Chris Martin from Coldplay.
5. Twix is short for “Twin Sticks.”
