| Minnesota Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild Contributor(s): Neidt, Jeff (Author), Wojna, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897278330 ISBN-13: 9781897278338 Publisher: Blue Bike Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2008 Annotation: An entertaining and lighthearted collection of facts from every corner of the state of Minnesota |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Trivia - Humor | Form - Trivia - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
| Dewey: 977.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.43" W x 8.29" (0.54 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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... |