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5 Useful Things to Know Today: Sept. 23
Football Friday and more rain highlight today's five things.

1. Rain continues to be in the forecast. A high of 71 degrees with scattered thunderstorms and a 60 percent chance of rain turning to 80 percent in the evening for your Friday.
2. The 2011 National Book Festival runs this weekend on the National Mall. Check it out!
3. Friday means high school football. Quince Orchard takes on Northwest on the road and Wootton returns home to face Richard Montgomery. Look for a preview on the Wootton-RM game later today from Matt Papuchis.
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4. In case you missed it: Same-Sex Marriage Fight to Return to Legislature in 2012
5. On this day in history: German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune in 1846.
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