Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
1. Cigarette smokers have lower rates of Parkinson’s disease than non-smokers.
2. Origami was started in China, not Japan. It made its way into Japan in the sixth century thanks to Buddhist monks.
3. The first ceiling fans were installed in America in the 1860s, and were powered by running water, a turbine, and belts.
4. The guy who invented glow sticks didn’t know they were popular at concerts and festivals until 2013.
5. There are 4,700 species of frogs, and only one makes a “ribbit” sound. But we associate it with all frogs, because the frog that “ribbits” is native to California, so it’s the one that sound engineers originally recorded for movies.
