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Although Minnesota, nicknamed "The Land of 10,000 Lakes" seems an exaggeration, in reality there are 11 842 lakes in Minnesota. Each of them is ten hectares or more, the standard minimum size limit is a body of water must reach before calling it a lake. Minnesota has many lakes, the original names are hard to find. Currently there are 91 lakes named Long Lake, and over a hundred with the name of the lake of mud.

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. This 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 square meters with an area of ​​5.3 million. But in 2006, the Mall of America 40 million customers, whileWest Edmonton Mall has hosted a measly 22 million. If you want to find the biggest mall in the world, it is necessary to look beyond South Asia. Eight of the ten largest malls in the world are there. The West Edmonton Mall is still the Top Ten, as well as a shopping center in Turkey, but the Mall of America is not the world's top ten in those days. This does not mean you should not try it, but it will still blow your mind the size

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

Minnesota is the birthplace of many products in many American households find. A short list of notable inventions and Minnesota is the scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, water, cat litter, the pacemaker, rollerblades, bundt pan, l ', spam,> Tonka Truck and Post-it Notes.

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

Since 2009, University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, the sixth largest university campus in the nation presenting with approximately 51,000 students. Among the best-known universities and most successfulMinnesota participants are former Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former MP and three-time presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, Earl Bakken, inventor of the pacemaker, Bob Dylan, Henry Fonda, none of which passed, and baseball legends 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, from the Atlantic to be fully achieved by the water.

Original name of St. Paul was Pig Eye. This unflattering designation, the area of ​​Pierre "Pig's Eye" in 1838 Parrant given. Parrant expanded the range of the first structure, which he called the "whiskey salesman hut" at the mouth of a cave along the Mississippi River, near what is now downtown St. Paul. A retired fur trader and a man of dubious reputation, was known as the eyes of Parrant porkthe 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 piggish. However, he was dubious and unattractive, was a successful businessman Parrant when he opened his eyes Pig Tavern in 1838. Since the Tavern Eye pork was actually a trading outpost black, his company has only two short years as a soldier from nearby Fort Parrant Pig Eye Snelling old 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 above ground, the compound 69 city blocks. The Minneapolis skyway system is 8 miles long and connects the second and third floor of banks, restaurants, hotels and commercial buildings and public, from which the inner city. Float majestically through the streets of downtown, the Skyway system designed to allow pedestrians to live,work, eat and shop without going outside. If you've ever spent a winter in Minnesota, one understands why the city has gone to such great efforts to protect its citizens from the elements. Among the most popular can be achieved through the skyway system, the Target Center, where he plays the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx basketball teams, the building and the IDS Crystal Court, the Orpheum Theater, the Minneapolis Convention Center and the historic Theatre State.

The world's largest balltwine from a man named Darwin, Minnesota is home. His obsessive creator, Francis A. Packaging Twine Johnson began in March 1950 and to further develop his masterpiece in a period of 39 years. It is said that the ever-growing ball of twine wrapped Johnson for an amazing four hours a day for 23 consecutive weeks, when you start for the first time, although it is quite difficult to say where string, its almost 9 tons, 13 to provide sphere diameter tool was. As the ball spun grew, Johnson was theUsing a crane to lift the ball and go with the right packaging. After Johnson's death in 1989, the city of Darwin, the ball moved from its open on the lawn in front of Johnson, a specially constructed pavilion on the main road from Darwin to shed. If you see a stop, a volunteer-run museum full of eclectic items and other information about the creation of the ball rope handle. One of the objects of the museum was another record year of wood: linden, did Francis Johnsonthe largest collection of hand-made pliers in the world by a man, we're not kidding. The largest of these clamps wooden stand two meters tall, is carved so skillfully that another 25 small pliers slip out of the handles, each slightly smaller than the next. The smaller calipers Johnson dug a lot done. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the clip, is that no glue or nails were used in their construction, were carved in solid wood and eachopens and closes like a real set of pliers. On second thought, is the most surprising thing of pliers Johnson who made tens of thousands of them! I bet nobody told this guy to get a hobby.