- Minnesotans say they invented water skiing.
Minnesota fun facts because National Minnesota Day is tomorrow, March 1st. What do you know about Minnesota?
Minnesota is home to packaged and prepared Spam. If you’re in the area, you can visit the Spam Museum at the Hormel headquarters in Austin.
Two people from Minnesota have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Post-It Notes were created in Minnesota. Scientist Art Fry of Minnesota’s own
3M Corporation, invented the product all because he teamed up with an adhesive. The developer of a tacky, reusable adhesive, 3M scientist Dr. Spencer Silver, couldn’t figure out what to do with his product and boom. Together the Post-It as we know it along with the adhesive on the back made it the product it is today.
Minnesota has the largest Hmong and Somali communities in the United States. This is one of the most interesting of the Minnesota fun facts because the area is known to be traditionally Scandinavian.
The Land of 10,000 Lakes actually has more than 14,000 lakes. Lakes that are 10 acres or larger are named.
Minnesota is the only state that water flows out of and not into. The only exceptions are a few border streams that cross into the state and then out of it.
The states with the most lakes are:
- Alaska, with over 3 million-plus lakes!
- Michigan
- Florida
- Minnesota
Minnesota is home to one of the only exclaves in the United States.
The state of Minnesota produces around 40 million birds annually. Did you know this as one of the Minnesota fun facts?
Dorothy’s ruby slippers were stolen in Minnesota. Remember, the Wizard of Oz? It happened when they were on display at the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids. An extra fun fact is that part of the museum is located in the childhood home of Garland, who was from Minnesota.
More gray wolves live in Minnesota than in any of the rest of the lower 48
states. The state’s wolf population was the only one that avoided extirpation in the 19th and 20th centuries.
More turkeys are hatched in this state than anywhere else in the country.
Minnesota has a three-way continental divide located in the middle of the country on the Canadian border.
Home to a rare, three-way continental divide, and located in the center of the country on the Canadian border, The Northwest Angle, a Lake of the Woods peninsula, is part of Minnesota but only connects to Manitoba by land. It’s the northernmost point in the Lower 48.
Though some may think it is, Fargo isn’t in Minnesota. However, its sister city Moorhead is. Have you ever seen the movie about Fargo?
Bob Dylan, of Hibbing, in 2016, and Sinclair Lewis of Sauk Centre in 1930. Lewis’s boyhood home is now a museum.
You have to drive through Canada, or cross the lake, to get to part of
Minnesota.
Speaking of which, the headwaters of the Mississippi River is right here in Minnesota. You can walk across it at Lake Itasca in Itasca State Park.
Minnesota was home to the first indoor mall of America.
There’s a 60-foot tall magnetic rock in northern Minnesota. The stone column is actually magnetic!
Which of these Minnesota fun facts are your favorite? Let me know in the comments!