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| The "wrinkled peach" mushroom (pictured) requires light from the red end of the visible spectrum to induce fruiting. |
| It took 16 years for the pilot episode of Phineas and Ferb to be picked up. |
| When the Washington Huskies softball team won the 2009 Women's College World Series, it marked the 22nd time in the 28 World Series that a Pac-10 team was crowned champion. |
| New Super Mario Bros. Wii will have a feature that allows the game to play on its own while paused. |
| Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds. |
| Irish band Fight Like Apes named one of their 2007 EPs David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch. |
| Rafael Carrión, Sr. was one of the founders of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, the largest bank in Puerto Rico and the largest Hispanic bank in the United States. |
| Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed by guillotine (pictured). |
| In 1984, Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass committed $30 million to (and eventually spent over $150 million on) Biosphere 2, to experiment with "recreating the Earth" and potentially settling Mars. |
| After receiving more than 10,000 protest letters, the editors of the United Methodist Hymnal decided not to eliminate "Onward, Christian Soldiers" from it. |
| When the Louisiana State Representative C.W. Thompson died in office in 1951, then Governor Earl K. Long appointed Lizzie P. Thompson to finish her husband's term. |
| Prior to the 1929 Royal Mail Case, British accountants were not expected to use their moral and ethical judgment in making decisions. |
| Diane Dietz set the Big Ten single-game basketball scoring record with 45 points in 1982 and the University of Michigan career record with 2,076 points. |
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