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- ...that Garland Rivers (pictured) was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
- ...that William Revelli, director of the University of Michigan Marching Band for 36 years, was the first to synchronize music and movement, in place of traditional rigid military-style formations?
- ...that despite a requirement from the Michigan Legislature that a railroad connect three counties within ten years of its founding, after 21 years the St. Joseph Valley Rail Road had completed only 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track, all in St. Joseph County?
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- ...that Penny Neer, 1982 AIAW discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also blocked 64 shots for the University of Michigan women's basketball team?
- ...that in 2004, running back Mike Hart broke Ricky Powers' Michigan Wolverines freshman rushing record and matched Jon Vaughn, the only other Michigan back with consecutive 200-yard games?
- ...that the Western State Normal Railroad (replica car pictured) is the only known railroad built by a university and the only funicular operated in Michigan?
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- ...that the citizens of Smyrna, Michigan withheld $25 from their deferred payment for Whites Bridge (pictured) because they were upset that the builders used second-hand lumber?
- ...that shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan, ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?
- ...that wide receiver Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning touchdown in Lloyd Carr's Michigan coaching debut?
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- ...that Croton Dam (pictured), on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
- ... that the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan houses the only SR-71B Blackbird in existence?
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- ...that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at the University of Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like "an educated foghorn"?
- ...that local farmers would drive rock laden wagons onto the Ada Covered Bridge (pictured) in Ada, Michigan to prevent it from washing away during floods?
- ...that Kobe Bryant's agent, Rob Pelinka, was the only person to play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship for both the 1989 champion Michigan and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five teams?
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- ...that Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club?
- ...that Michigan State University Libraries (main building pictured) has the largest catalogued collection of comic books in the world, with over 150,000 items?
- ...that the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor is a US$1 billion biotechnology initiative that gets its funding from Michigan's settlement with the tobacco industry?
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- ...that the Cross in the Woods shrine (pictured) in Michigan contains the United States' largest collection of figurative dolls dressed as nuns?
- ...that as an Illinois State Senator James M. Strode introduced legislation authorizing a loan used to begin construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal?
- ...that the All-American Wistert brothers Albert, Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame?
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- ...that despite multiple transfers of ownership, after 123 years trains still haul paper products over the White River Railroad's line?
- ...that the Michigan Wolverines are college football's most victorious program by total wins and percentage?
- ...that at 1,328 feet (405 m) above sea level, Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is the highest scenic roadway between the Rockies and Alleghenies?