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While selling absorbents in 1947, St. Paul-native Edward Lowe packaged clay for use as cat-box filler, inventing Kitty Litter.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

Yellow dolomitic limestone quarried at Kasota (pop. 680) was used for the National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in September in Washington, D.C.

first appeared: 11/7/2004

The 60-foot High Falls on the Baptism River near Silver Bay (pop. 2,068) is the highest falls located entirely within the state.

first appeared: 10/24/2004

Cindy Nelson began skiing at age 2 in Lutsen (pop. 360) and became the first American to win a World Cup, at age 19, in downhill racing in 1974.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

Local lore has it that Darfur (pop. 137) was named by Scandinavian railroad men after one asked, “Why you stop dar fur?”

first appeared: 10/3/2004

School-clothes shopping is convenient for students at National American University, one of the only college campuses located in a shopping mall, the Mall of America in Bloomington.

first appeared: 9/19/2004

Olivia (pop. 2,570) was designated “Corn Capital of the World” in April 2004. The town is home to nine corn research centers and a 50-foot monumental ear of corn.

first appeared: 9/12/2004

The world’s largest crow, an 18-foot fiberglass sculpture, is displayed in Belgrade (pop. 750).

first appeared: 9/5/2004

The last Union Army soldier, Albert Woolson, died at age 109 in 1956 in Duluth. A statue of Woolson is at the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

A road crew unearthed one of the nation’s oldest human skeletons in 1931 at Pelican Rapids (pop. 2,374). The 10,000-year-old female was, and still is, a significant archaeological find.

first appeared: 8/22/2004

Founded in 1915, Deluxe Corp. in St. Paul is the world’s largest check printer, providing checks for 8,000 financial institutions.

first appeared: 8/15/2004

Perham (pop. 2,559) slows to a crawl on Wednesday mornings during the summer when the town triples in size for the International Turtle Races, held since 1978.

first appeared: 8/8/2004

A model of a proposed personal rapid transit system is displayed in Fridley (pop. 27,449). A three-passenger car runs along an overhead rail, combining the convenience and privacy of a taxi with the traffic-free flow of a subway.

first appeared: 8/1/2004

Since 1972, Linda Christensen has sculpted 90-pound blocks of butter into busts of dairy princess contestants at the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul.

first appeared: 7/25/2004

St. Cloud (pop. 59,107) built a rock-solid industry as a granite producer and is nicknamed the “Granite City.”

first appeared: 7/18/2004

The oldest of seven children when her father died, Wanda Gag turned to art and writing to support her family and created the popular children’s book Millions of Cats. Gag was born in 1893 in New Ulm (pop. 13,594).

first appeared: 7/11/2004

In 1926, Herbert Sellner of Faribault (pop. 20,818) invented and built the Tilt-A-Whirl. Today, a fourth generation keeps the family business whirling.

first appeared: 6/27/2004

The Polish Cultural Institute in Winona (pop. 27,069) relates the story of Polish immigrants who settled there in the 1850s.

first appeared: 6/20/2004

From 1910 to 1925, the nation’s shortest interstate streetcar line zipped 1.14 miles between Breckenridge (pop. 3,559) and Wahpeton, N.D. (pop. 8,536).

first appeared: 6/13/2004

An NFL franchise was granted to Minnesota in 1960. The football team was named the Vikings because it symbolized the Nordic tradition in the northern Midwest.

first appeared: 6/6/2004

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