Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
1. If we ever settle on Mars, we’ll need to use a different calendar based on the length of dates and years there. A year is 24 months of 27 or 28 days each.
2. A guy named Eric Money is the only NBA player to score for both teams in one game. He played for the New Jersey Nets against the Philadelphia 76ers in 1978. Part of the game was replayed under protest five months later . . . and by that point, Money had been traded to the 76ers.
3. “Balls to the wall” is actually an aviation term. The control sticks in some military planes have a grip that’s shaped like a ball, and pilots would push them all the way to the wall in the front of the cockpit to go as fast as possible.
4. There are 28 fireplaces in the White House.
5. Aomori, Japan is the snowiest city in the world. It gets an average of 312 inches of snow per year. That’s the equivalent of 26 feet.
