- ... that Henry Failing (pictured) won his second term as mayor of Portland, Oregon, with only five dissenting votes?
- ... that the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon?
- ... that Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery?
- ... that Oregon entrepreneur Norm Winningstad helped found Floating Point Systems, Thrustmaster, and Lattice Semiconductor?