Curious Minnesota

82 Episodes

1. What does it mean when Minnesota courts sentence offenders to 'the workhouse'?

   Published: 2/23/2024
2. What is Minnesota's deepest lake?

   Published: 2/1/2024
3. How did Minnesota become the nation's top turkey state?

   Published: 1/18/2024
4. How much flour would it take to turn Lake Superior into bread?

   Published: 1/5/2024
5. Did teenagers 'riot' when the Beatles stayed in downtown Minneapolis in 1965?

   Published: 12/15/2023
6. Did a Nazi sympathizer once represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate?

   Published: 12/1/2023
7. How did Kid Cann become Minneapolis' most infamous gangster?

   Published: 11/17/2023
8. Was Moorhead once a drinking destination?

   Published: 11/2/2023
9. Why did Spam become an international sensation?

   Published: 10/19/2023
10. Why did Prince decide to live in Chanhassen?

    Published: 10/6/2023
11. State Fair attendees tell us their Minnesota questions

    Published: 9/22/2023
12. Why is Minnesota such a hotbed of professional wrestling?

    Published: 9/8/2023
13. Curious Minnesota at the State Fair this Saturday

    Published: 8/29/2023
14. Why did Minnesota once require margarine to be dyed pink?

    Published: 8/24/2023
15. How did Tonka trucks get their start in Minnesota?

    Published: 6/29/2023
16. Inside the mines and megamachines of the Iron Range

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

    Published: 6/2/2023
18. Why does Minnesota have municipal liquor stores?

    Published: 5/19/2023
19. Why didn't Minneapolis gobble up its suburbs?

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

    Published: 4/21/2023