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IDS Tower

...that the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the 792-foot (241 m) IDS Tower (pictured)?
...that after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense, one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
...that the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio, a hotel, apartments, a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?

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Skyline Towers

... that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghetto in the sky"?

Gordon Parks High School

...that Gordon Parks High School (pictured), an alternative school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named after the famous photographer?
...that General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor?
...that temperature extremes in Minnesota have varied from −60 °F (−51 °C) to 114 °F (46 °C)?

Traverse des Sioux near St. Peter, Minnesota

...that at Traverse des Sioux on the Minnesota River (pictured), Sioux tribes were induced to enter into an 1851 treaty, ceding 24 million acres (9.7 million ha) for seven cents per acre?
...that the once-buried remains of a power canal and flour mills in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota have been unearthed and are now open as Mill Ruins Park to provide historical interpretation in the area?
...that outlaws John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson were tried in the historic Landmark Center in St. Paul?

White Castle restaurant Building No. 8

...that the prefabricated and portable White Castle restaurant Building No. 8 (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota has had three different locations?
...that Earl Bakken who invented the wearable cardiac pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic also created The Bakken, the world's only library and museum devoted to electricity in life?
..that the 1886 Sauk Rapids tornado changed the economic structure of central Minnesota after it destroyed at least 109 commercial or public buildings in Sauk Rapids?

Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse

...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse (pictured) is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
...that according to a Dakota Indian legend, the Great Spirit divided Barn Bluff between two rival villages of Minnesota, with the remaining portion moving to Winona and became Sugar Loaf?
...that Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places?

Proglacial lakes of Minnesota

...that the proglacial lakes of Minnesota (pictured) were massive freshwater lakes covering many times the area of the Great Lakes at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation?
...that the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis began in the home of Harriet G. Walker and her husband T. B. Walker?
...that during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?

IDS Tower

...that the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the 792-foot (241 m) IDS Tower (pictured)?
...that after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense, one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
...that the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio, a hotel, apartments, a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?

Lake Phalen

...that scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen (pictured), in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to a population of rainbow darters, a fish normally found in fast moving streams?
...that Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
...that Archbishop John Ireland refused to allow the Irish in Saint Paul, Minnesota to have a Saint Patrick's Day parade due to previous celebrations turning into what he called "midnight orgies"?

Early residents on Milwaukee Avenue

...that residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue (pictured) because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
...that the exposed bedrock of the Duluth Complex was formed from magma emitted when the North American plate began to split apart in the Midcontinent Rift?
...that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House, a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work?

Nokomis Community Library

...that the Nokomis Community Library (pictured), named for Nokomis in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, is the only library in the Minneapolis Public Library System to be named for a fictional character?
...that during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
... that Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?

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Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House

... that the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House (pictured) features an indoor well pump, but a five-hole, two-story outhouse connected to the house via a skyway?
... that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
... that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront? 11.

Fire Station No. 19
... that Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball, a forerunner of modern softball?
... that it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
... that an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association's website?
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