Portal:Oregon/DYK/88


 * ... that with hundreds of birds found in the state (Western Meadowlark pictured), Oregon ranks fifth in the United States in terms of avian species diversity?
 * ... that American wine writer Matt Kramer coined the definition of terroir as a wine's "somewhereness"?
 * ... that the Hawthorn Farm rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, has a piece of art that indicates the wind's direction by using lights and sounds?
 * ... that newspaper editor Col. William Thompson won his 1871 shootout with a rival newspaper editor despite sustaining severe gunshot wounds, including a bullet lodged behind his eye, and a beating from a cane?

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