Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.

1633 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy[…]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume.…, London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, OCLC 51546498:

Founded in 1975 and led by the violinist Richard Tognetti since 1989, the orchestra looks youthful and hip onstage, its players clad in varying shades of black semiformality.

Australia is famous for its enormous variety of toxic or venomous creatures, and now scientists have added a new snake to its roster: Acanthophis cryptamydros, or the Kimberley death adder (named after the region of Australia it comes from).