Minnesota Trivia Weird, Wacky and Wild |
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Author:
| Neidt, Jeff Wojna, Lisa |
ISBN: | 978-1-897278-33-8 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
Publisher: | Blue Bike Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionMinnesota 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...