Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
1. The guitar riff in “Sweet Child O’ Mine” started as a joke. Slash played it while he was messing around during warm-ups, because he thought it sounded like a circus melody.
2. For most of this past decade, the fastest growing city in America was The Villages in Florida . . . and yeah, it’s a retirement community.
3. America won the first gold medal in modern Olympics history. In 1896 in Greece, an American track star named James Connolly won the first event, the triple jump.
4. Small spiders have brains that are too big for their heads . . . so it actually spills into their body and legs.
5. There are no term limits for vice president. So in theory, different presidents COULD keep picking the same person to be vice president . . . but obviously it’s never happened.