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| The fungus gnat is often found around houseplants because it lays eggs in moist potting soil. |
| South Park Lofts in Los Angeles, originally an eight-story parking garage, was converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking. |
| Abdur Rashid Kardar, a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore, was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films. |
| On the Mars Exploration Rover (artist's impression pictured), a technique known as visual odometry allowed the rover to estimate its position and orientation using only camera images. |
| Brad Paisley's 2008 single "Waitin' on a Woman" is a re-recording of a song that he originally recorded on his 2005 album Time Well Wasted. |
| The Zebu element in Jamaica Hope cattle comes from one Sahiwal bull. |
| Four players from the Morgan State University Football Bears are in the NFL Hall of Fame. |
| chemist and science policy-maker Rudolf Mentzel, head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was also an SS Brigadier. |
| The Streeterville neighborhood sits almost entirely on land that did not exist when the city of Chicago first incorporated. |
| Penelope Wensley, who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York. |
| pteridomania is the Victorian-era craze for fern collecting (pictured) and for fern motifs in decorative art. |
| Floyd Womack of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash. |
| Australian naturalist and botanical artist Rica Erickson wrote her first book Orchids of the West in 1951. |
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