Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
1. Sriracha has a rooster on the bottle because the guy who created it was born in 1945, which was the Year of the Rooster.
2. The screenwriter who wrote “Cast Away” spent a week alone on a deserted island for research. A volleyball washed up on the shore, which is where he got the idea for Wilson.
3. Every baseball that’s used in the major and minor leagues is rubbed with special mud from New Jersey before it’s shipped or used in a game.
4. Long johns are named after a boxer in Boston in the 1870s named John Sullivan . . . he would wear them in the ring.
5. Even though the “Soviet Union” hasn’t competed in the Summer Olympics since 1988, it’s still second in the all-time medal count. America has 2,629 medals . . . the Soviet Union has 1,010 . . . and Great Britain is third with 916.
