Minnesota Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild

by Jeff Neidt and Andrew Fleming

Book Overview

Minnesota is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters: - A SPAM museum, located in the town of Austin, is dedicated entirely to that canned meat product - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Judy Garland and Bob Dylan are all native Minnesotans - The Mall of America in Bloomington covers an area of 9.5 million square feet--roughly the size of 78 football fields - Minnesota is the birthplace of the Jolly Green Giant and Wheaties cereal, masking and Scotch tape, Bisquick, Aveda beauty products and the stapler - The world's largest pelican statue stands more than 15 feet tall in downtown Pelican Rapids, near Pelican River - Minneapolis' famed skyway system connects 52 blocks of the downtown core - The state has 15,291 lakes and 90,000 miles of shoreline, which is more than California, Florida and Hawaii's shorelines combined - Minnesota has the most groomed snowmobile trails in the country--2000 miles worth. And so much more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897278330
• ISBN13: 9781897278338
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Blue Bike Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book -- whether you're Minnesotan or not

True to its name, this book is full of crazy facts about Minnesota. Even though I've lived in Minnesota my whole life, I found myself constantly surprised at the little blurbs I read and learned many new facts. This book would be perfect to set on a coffee table, or to send to guests visiting Minnesota. If you're not from Minnesota, it is a great read and full of interesting things! I definitely recommend it. Neidt's humor shines through the book to make it a very interesting and hard-to-put-down.