• the Baudette Fire of 1910 burned down the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette, Minnesota, on October 7, 1910?
• the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond, who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans?
• the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the 792-foot (241 m) IDS Tower (pictured)?
• the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota?
• the Ames-Florida House is one of a few houses in Minnesota built with timber framing before balloon framing and dimensional lumber were well-known in that U.S. state?
• despite shortages of money during the construction of the Deerwood Auditorium in Minnesota, the building was substantially completed in time for its first event, a lutefisk supper?
• during the CU project controversy "bolt weevils" destroyed 14 transmission towers of a power line under construction in Minnesota?
• the 1863 Point Douglas-St. Louis River Road Bridge (pictured), near Stillwater, Minnesota, is the oldest standing stone arch bridge in Minnesota?
• the Lumber Exchange Building (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1885) is the oldest remaining building in the United States outside of New York City with more than eleven floors?
• the Mount Zion Temple organized the first synagogue and was led by the first rabbi in Minnesota?
• the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar?
• to save money, new Minnesota radio station KYES shares studio space with KKJM, which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2000?
• while the name of western Minnesota's Pomme de Terre River (pictured) translates as "Potato River", it was actually named for the prairie turnip?
• the Glacial Gardens of Interstate Park in Minnesota and Wisconsin contain the greatest concentration of glacial potholes in the world?
• the Spenser Somers Foundation is named after a student from Edina, Minnesota who suffered from Ewing's sarcoma?
• the Old Log Theater is reputedly the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota and is the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States?
• the Sauk Rapids Tornado of 1886 changed the economic structure of central Minnesota after it destroyed at least 109 commercial or public buildings in Sauk Rapids (damage pictured)?
• at Traverse Gap, a valley in Minnesota and South Dakota, water originating in the watershed of the Gulf of Mexico can flood across the continental divide into the watershed of Hudson Bay?
• as the chairman of the U.S. Reform Party, Russ Verney asked its highest elected official, Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, to resign from the party?
• dessert bars are considered one of two essentials for potlucks in Minnesota, the other being hotdish?
• Gordon Parks High School, an alternative school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named after the famous photographer?
• Itasca State Park (pictured) in Minnesota contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River?
• Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Minnesota's Buffalo Ridge is the site of the first wind farm in the upper Midwest?
• Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?
• Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
• Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota contains the Devil's Kettle (pictured), a waterfall in which half of the Brule River disappears into a glacial kettle?
• Lucien Galtier, the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye?
• Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota has a clifftop lighthouse (pictured) on the North Shore of Lake Superior built without roads?
• a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations?
• according to a Dakota Indian legend, the Great Spirit divided Barn Bluff between two rival villages of Minnesota, with the remaining portion moving to Winona and became Sugar Loaf?
• Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice, one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state?
• Rachel Paulose is the first woman in Minnesota to become a District Attorney?
• weather extremes in Minnesota include temperatures of −60 °F (−51 °C) and 114 °F (46 °C)?
• Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike?
• Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events?

Facts on topics related to Minnesota

Saint Paul, Minnesota

• Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
• City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992?
• Lucien Galtier, the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye?
• Pearson's Candy Company, a Saint Paul, Minnesota confectioner, once produced the Seven Up Bar and the Chicken Dinner Bar?
• Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places?
• after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense, one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
• despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
• for fifty years the Red River Trails were used by Red River ox carts as the principal means of transportation between modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba and St Paul, Minnesota?
• scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to a population of rainbow darters, a fish normally found in fast-moving streams?
• since being dedicated for "park and parkway" purposes in 1909, Dickerman Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has been primarily used for parking lots and front yards of businesses?

North Dakota

• over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
• the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?

Oklahoma

• architect Solomon Andrew Layton designed 22 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma, a state record?
• Oklahoma's Price Tower is one of the only two Frank Lloyd Wright skyscrapers ever built?
  
• Oklahoma historian Angie Debo won numerous honors for her books on Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department?
• Charles N. Haskell was the first governor of Oklahoma, and he played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution?
• Hurricane Tico (pictured), a Pacific hurricane of the 1983 season, caused flooding and record rainfall in Oklahoma?
• Jerome Tiger, a Native American painter from Oklahoma, was a high school dropout and worked as a laborer and prize fighter?
• Marie Wadley helped to introduce legislation to establish the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Oklahoma and later served as its first president?
• a noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer, but was removed because of perceived racist undertones?
• a tornado outbreak (damage pictured) produced up to 3 inch (76 mm) diameter hail near Midwest City, Oklahoma?
• after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929, it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached?

North Carolina

• "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
• North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color?
• North Carolina-based author Perry Deane Young's first Vietnam War article for UPI was about the Tet Offensive, which began the night he arrived in Saigon?
• Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina?
• Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
• Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
• Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina?
• James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army?

Minneapolis

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House (pictured), a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work?
• Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
• Minneapolis' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month?
• Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis, also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota?
• an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association's website?
• during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
• it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
• residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
• the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker (pictured) that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million?
• the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?

Illinois

• bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
• Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
• Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
• Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
• David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
• Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
• Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
• Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?

Michigan

• 43 miners were trapped for five days underground in the 1926 Pabst Mine Disaster in Michigan?
• Detroit's Rosedale Park, containing 1,533 properties, is the largest district in Michigan to be listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
• 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?
• Jennifer Granholm became the first female governor of Michigan after winning the 2002 Michigan gubernatorial election?
• Michigan highway M-97 was simultaneously named both Reid Highway and Groesbeck Highway by different levels of government from 1927 until 1949, the year it was dedicated to Alex Groesbeck?
• Michigan's Ludington Public Library was claimed as the library that will last a thousand years?
• Michigan's Mason County District Library is an umbrella entity that administers two libraries?
• Michigan, France, and the United States have all sued for claim to the “holy grail” of Great Lakes shipwrecks, French explorer La Salle’s ship Le Griffon (pictured) that sank in 1679?
• Bruce Hilkene was captain of the 1947 Wolverines who were selected as the greatest Michigan football team of all time?
• Burnt Hair Records was part of Michigan's space rock music scene in the 1990s?

Iron Range

• Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan, Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range, and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?