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Although Minnesota nickname "The Land of 10,000 Lakes" seems an exaggeration, there are actually 11,842 lakes in Minnesota. Each of them is ten hectares or more, which is within the minimum standard size of a water body before it can be a lake should be called. Minnesota has many lakes, the original name can be difficult to obtain. Currently there are 91 lakes named Long Lake, and over a hundred as the mud lake.

The Mall of America in Bloomington, a suburb ofMinneapolis / St. Paul is the largest mall in America, but not the largest mall in the world. In fact, it was not even the largest mall in North America, it was built in 1992. That distinction goes to the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada. While the Mall of America has an area of ​​4.2 million square meters, or about 72 football fields, the eclipse of the West Edmonton Mall, with an area of ​​5.3 million square feet. But in 2006, the Mall of America 40 million customers, whileWest Edmonton Mall hosted a modest 22 million. If you want to find the largest shopping malls in the world, you have no more than in South Asia for research. Eight of the ten largest malls in the world are there. The West Edmonton Mall is still made the top ten, as well as a shopping center in Turkey, but the Mall of America, not even top ten in the world in those days. This does not mean you should check it out, but its size still Blow Your Mind.

Minnesota hosts the source of mighty Mississippi. The river begins at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, south-west of Bemidji. The Mississippi River is considered 14thlongest the world, with its sister river, the Missouri, just behind at 15.

Minnesota is the birthplace of many products in many American households find. A short list of notable inventions Minnesota Scotch tape and tape, Wheaties cereal, water, Kitty Litter, the cardiac pacemaker, Roller Blades, the Bundt pan, spam,Tonka Truck> and Post-It Notes.

The Minneapolis Public Library was the first to have a space dedicated to children in 1889 and still has the largest collection of books for children in the upper Midwest, including materials in 30 different languages.

Since 2009, the campus of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus of the nation's sixth-largest by deposits with about 51,000 students. Among the most famous and successful UniversityMinnesota participants are former Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former MP and three-time presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, legends Earl Bakken, inventor of the pacemaker, Bob Dylan, Henry Fonda, none of which passed, and Baseball Paul Molitor and Dave Winfield, among many others. The U of M has five Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and musicians, including Robert Penn Warren, author of All the King's Men, and seven NobelWinners.

The port of Duluth Minnesota to the Atlantic Ocean can be made from water.

St. Paul's original name was Pig's Eye. This name was not flattering on a number of "Pig's Eye" Pierre in 1838, where Parrant. Parrant first structure built in the area, which he described as "Whisky Seller hut" at the mouth of a cave along the Mississippi River near the present downtown St. Paul. A retired fur trader and a man of dubious reputation was Parrant as Pig's Eye due tothe fact that he had a patch over one eye, and the remaining eye had a distinct white ring around the pupil, giving a glance was considered crap. However dubious and unattractive, was a successful entrepreneur was when he opened his Parrant Pig's Eye Tavern in 1838. Since the Pig's Eye Tavern in reality it was a trading outpost Black took his company only two short years as a soldier from nearby Fort Snelling old Pig's Eye Parrant forced out of business. A decade later, the MinnesotaTerritory was formalized and the area was renamed St. Paul.

Skyways downtown Minneapolis has a system of tunnels is a glass or two floors, which connects 69 blocks. The Minneapolis skyway system is 8 km long and connects the second and third floors of banks, restaurants, hotels, public buildings and businesses, from which the inner city. Float majestically through the streets of downtown, the Skyway system designed to live for pedestrians,work, eat and shop without leaving. If you've ever spent a winter in Minnesota, one understands why the city did everything possible to protect its citizens from the elements. Among the most popular sites can be accessed via the Skyway, the Target Center to play the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx basketball teams, the building and its IDS Crystal Court, the Orpheum Theatre, The Minneapolis Convention Center and the historic State Theater.

The largest ballwire of a man-made house calls to Minnesota in Darwin. His obsessive creator Francis A. Johnson began packing twine in March 1950 and to further develop his masterpiece in a period of 39 years. It is said that Johnson wrapped twine around the ball more and more of an amazing four hours a day for 23 consecutive weeks, when he started, although it is difficult to say where you enough rope to its nearly 9 tons, 13 feet in diameter ball. Since the line create increased ball, Johnson recruitedUsing a crane to lift the ball and continue with the correct packaging. After Johnson's death in 1989, the city of Darwin moved the ball from his shed outside on the lawn of Johnson in a specially built pavilion on the main street of Darwin. If you stop to see a museum run by volunteers filled with eclectic concepts and other information on the creation of the ball twine to be treated. One of the items in the museum was another record full of linden wood, the creation of Francis Johnsonthe largest group of instruments made by hand from a man in the world, are not serious. The largest of these weapons made of wood, was six feet tall, is carved so skillfully that another 25 small pliers slip handles, each slightly smaller than the next. The minimum caliper Johnson cut a lot done. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the forceps, is that no glue or nails were used in their construction, were each carved from solid wood andopens and closes like a real set of pliers. On second thought, is the most surprising thing of pliers that Johnson has tens of thousands of them! I bet nobody told this guy to have a hobby.