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| Minnesota Facts |
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The first Intercollegiate Basketball game was played in Minnesota on February 9,1895. |
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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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Minneapolis, Minnesota's famed skyway system connecting 52 blocks (nearly five miles) of downtown makes it possible to live, eat, work and shop without going outside. |
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