- ... that a piece of carpet installed at 400 SW Sixth Avenue (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, in 1959 was said at that time to be the largest that had ever been laid in the Pacific Northwest?
- ... that Paul G. Risser served as president of Miami University and Oregon State University as well as chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education?
- ... that stage coaches on the Drain-Coos Bay stage line in Southern Oregon traveled on the beach?
- ... that Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, Oregon, did not get a permanent MRI machine until 2001?