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Pollicipes polymerus
... that the
gooseneck barnacle
Pollicipes polymerus
(several pictured)
will become
sterile
if there are no others within 20 cm (8 in)?
...that the
Cascade Locks and Canal
, completed in 1896 to allow the
steamboats of the Columbia River
to bypass the
Cascades Rapids
, were submerged in 1938, when the
Bonneville Dam
was constructed?
...that
freestyle swimmer
Kim Peyton
, a gold medalist at the
1976 Summer Olympics
in
Montreal
, won a gold medal at the
1971 Pan American Games
at age 14 and set three U.S. swimming records at ages 9 and 10?
... that when asked his profession in testimony before the
House Un-American Activities Committee
, poet
George Hitchcock
responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants"?
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