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For many years, the world's largest twine ball has sat in Darwin, Minnesota. It weighs 17,400 pounds, is twelve feet in diameter, and was the creation of Francis A. Johnson. |
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The first official hit in the Metrodome in Minneapolis was made by Pete Rose playing for the Cincinnati Reds in a preseason game. |
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Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, Minnesota was the first enlisted man to land with the first American Expeditionary Force in Europe in WWII on January 26, 1942. |
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