Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
1. Subway’s B.M.T. sandwich was originally named after the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit subway lines. Now it stands for “Bigger, Meatier, Tastier.”
2. When Levi’s started selling jeans in the 1870s, they called them “waist overalls”
3. The Cowardly Lion costume in “The Wizard of Oz” was made out of a real lion skin.
4. The word “care” in “care package” was originally an acronym for “Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere.”
5. Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela gets hit by lightning approximately 300 times a year. That’s four out of every five days.
