- ... that Frank Dekum (pictured), a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, and president of the German Songbird Society, imported thrushes, starlings, nightingales, and other German songbirds to Oregon?
- ... that the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience?
- ... that Blazed Alder Creek, which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon, was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
- ... that National Football League player Geoff Schwartz didn't start playing football until age 13, because his parents wanted him to study for his Bar Mitzvah?