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• 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?