Michigan State University was founded in 1855 as the nation's first land-grant university and served as the prototype for 69 land-grant institutions later established under the Morrill Act of 1862.
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Standing anywhere in Michigan a person is within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes.
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The Kellogg Company has made Battle Creek, Michigan the Cereal Capital of the World. The Kellogg brothers accidentally discovered the process for producing flaked cereal products and sparked the beginning of the dry cereal industry.
