A fact from Tomitaro Makino appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that botanistTomitaro Makino, despite dropping out of grammar school, named over 2500 plants and is known as the "Father of Japanese Botany"?
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