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The Dakota Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson (pop. 16,010) features a complete, genuine skeleton of a triceratops and one of the best triceratops skulls ever found.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The state’s first export commodity was flint, mined in the Knife River area of today’s Dunn and Mercer counties by native peoples about 9,500 B.C.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

The state has 18 official points of entry along its border with Canada—more than any other state except Maine, which has 19.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

A New Year’s tradition at the high-rise state Capitol in Bismarck (pop. 55,532) is to illuminate a grid of windows to form the numbers for the new year.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

Eight bridges span the Sheyenne River in Valley City (pop. 6,826), nicknamed City of Bridges.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

A rare albino bison was born last May on the Big Sky Buffalo Ranch near Granville (pop. 286).

first appeared: 12/14/2003

The 10th Space Warning Squadron at Cavalier Air Force Station near Cavalier (pop. 1,537) uses radar to scan for sea-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles. Thanks to reader Bruce Clark for the clarification.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

Since opening in 1926, an attraction at the Fargo Theatre has been its Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

Baloney is big business in Wishek (pop. 1,122), where Stan Deile makes and sells about 3,000 pounds a week at Stan’s Super Valu.

first appeared: 11/23/2003

Founded in 1883, Jamestown College in Jamestown (pop. 15,527) is the state’s oldest private college.

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Founded in 1938 as a mail-order tractor parts business, Tractor Supply Co. opened its first retail store in 1939 in Minot (pop. 36,567) and today operates 430 stores in 30 states.

first appeared: 11/9/2003

Turtle Mountain State Forest near Bottineau (pop. 2,336) is North Dakota’s largest state forest with 7,704 acres of oak, aspen, birch, ash, and elm trees.

first appeared: 11/2/2003

Pioneering aviator Carl Ben Eielson flew the first airmail into Alaska in 1924. He was born in 1897 in Hatton (pop. 707).

first appeared: 10/26/2003

At Bois de Sioux Golf Course in Wahpeton (pop. 8,586), the front nine holes are played in North Dakota and the back nine in Breckenridge, Minn. (pop. 3,559).

first appeared: 10/19/2003

Bird watchers have spotted more than 250 species at Mirror Lake near Hettinger (pop. 1,307).

first appeared: 10/12/2003

A trapper’s cabin, homesteader’s shack, blacksmith shop, and one-room school re-create pioneer life at Heritage Park in Watford City (pop. 1,435).

first appeared: 10/5/2003

With 642,200 residents, North Dakota’s population ranks 47th among the 50 states.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

A depot and three granaries are among historic buildings at Pipestem Creek in Carrington, (pop. 2,268) where Ann Hoffert runs a successful business making edible bird feeders.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

Novelist and essayist William Gass, born in 1924 in Fargo, won a 2002 National Book Critics Circle award for Tests of Time.

first appeared: 9/14/2003

Open since 1920, Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot (pop. 36,567) is the state’s oldest zoo.

first appeared: 9/7/2003

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