Curious Minnesota

111 Episodes

1. Why is Minnesota such a hotbed of professional wrestling?

   Published: 8/09/2023
2. Curious Minnesota at the State Fair this Saturday

   Published: 29/08/2023
3. Why did Minnesota once require margarine to be dyed pink?

   Published: 24/08/2023
4. How did Tonka trucks get their start in Minnesota?

   Published: 29/06/2023
5. Inside the mines and megamachines of the Iron Range

   Published: 19/06/2023
6. Why didn't Minneapolis and St. Paul ever merge?

   Published: 2/06/2023
7. Why does Minnesota have municipal liquor stores?

   Published: 19/05/2023
8. Why didn't Minneapolis gobble up its suburbs?

   Published: 5/05/2023
9. Did a famed parks leader import gray squirrels to Minneapolis — and have the red ones killed?

   Published: 21/04/2023
10. Why was the utopian plan for Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside area never built?

    Published: 7/04/2023
11. What happened to Minneapolis' famous Weatherball?

    Published: 24/03/2023
12. How a Twin Cities ammunition factory dominated by women helped U.S. win WWII

    Published: 10/03/2023
13. Why was the Mall of America built in Minnesota?

    Published: 23/02/2023
14. Why does Minnesota sometimes get colder than the North Pole?

    Published: 9/02/2023
15. How did Minnesota become a window manufacturing hub?

    Published: 26/01/2023
16. Why are there so many stucco homes in the Twin Cities?

    Published: 13/01/2023
17. Minnesota companies once dominated the supercomputer industry. What happened?

    Published: 29/12/2022
18. Why did Finnish immigrants come to Minnesota? (And no, they're not Scandinavian)

    Published: 15/12/2022
19. Did a TV debate decide one of Minnesota's most scandalous elections?

    Published: 2/12/2022
20. Who was Hennepin and why did Minnesota name so many things after him?

    Published: 11/11/2022