Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
1. The “middle finger” has been an obscene gesture . . . for around 2,500 YEARS. The ancient Greeks developed it.
2. Cucumbers are 96% water . . . that’s even more than watermelons, which are 92% water.
3. None of The Beatles could read or write conventional music, or as Paul McCartney calls it, “dots on a page.”
4. The best theory on where pink lemonade comes from is that a circus vendor in the late 1800s accidentally dropped a red cinnamon candy into a batch of lemonade, which turned it pink . . . and it was a big hit.
5. The shortest career for anyone who’s played in the NBA is Jameson Curry. He played 3.9 seconds for the Los Angeles Clippers in 2010 . . . and that’s it.
