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Minnesota Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild

Minnesota Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild

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HumorGeneral ReferenceRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1897278330
ISBN13: 9781897278338
Publisher: Blue Bike Books
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
Minnesota is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters: - A SPAM museum, located in the town of Austin, is dedicated entirely to that canned meat product - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Judy Garland and Bob Dylan are all native Minnesotans - The Mall of America in Bloomington covers an area of 9.5 million square feet--roughly the size of 78 football fields - Minnesota is the birthplace of the Jolly Green Giant and Wheaties cereal, masking and Scotch tape, Bisquick, Aveda beauty products and the stapler - The world's largest pelican statue stands more than 15 feet tall in downtown Pelican Rapids, near Pelican River - Minneapolis' famed skyway system connects 52 blocks of the downtown core - The state has 15,291 lakes and 90,000 miles of shoreline, which is more than California, Florida and Hawaii's shorelines combined - Minnesota has the most groomed snowmobile trails in the country--2000 miles worth. And so much more...

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