I live in Minnesota.. I decided to include some things other than land mass/population type info that I thought might be interesting about my state!

* The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet.

* Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables

* Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater (Old Log Theater) and the largest dinner theater (Chanhassan Dinner Theater) in the country.

* The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the largest urban sculpture garden in the country.

* Minneapolis’ famed skyway system connecting 52 blocks (nearly five miles) of downtown makes it possible to live, eat, work and shop without going outside.

* Minneapolis has more golfers per capita than any other city in the country.

* The climate-controlled Metrodome is the only facility in the country to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship.

* Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.

* The first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow transplant in the United States were done at the University of Minnesota.

* In 1919 a Minneapolis factory turned out the nations first armored cars.

* Tonka Trucks were developed and are continued to be manufactured in Minnetonka.


* Minnesota has one recreational boat per every six people, more than any other state.

* There are 201 Mud Lakes, 154 Long Lakes, and 123 Rice Lakes commonly named in Minnesota.

* Minnesota's waters flow outward in three directions: north to Hudson Bay in Canada, east to the Atlantic Ocean, and south to the Gulf of Mexico.

* At the confluence of the Big Fork and Rainy Rivers on the Canadian border near International Falls stands the largest Indian burial mound in the upper midwest. It is known as the Grand Mound historic site.

* The first official hit in the Metrodome in Minneapolis was made by Pete Rose playing for the Cincinnati Reds in a preseason game.

* Polaris Industries of Roseau invented the snowmobile.

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Guess it's easy to see why Minnesota is the "Land of 10,000 Lakes!"