Curious Minnesota

111 Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 4/21/2023
10. Why was the utopian plan for Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside area never built?

    Published: 4/7/2023
11. What happened to Minneapolis' famous Weatherball?

    Published: 3/24/2023
12. How a Twin Cities ammunition factory dominated by women helped U.S. win WWII

    Published: 3/10/2023
13. Why was the Mall of America built in Minnesota?

    Published: 2/23/2023
14. Why does Minnesota sometimes get colder than the North Pole?

    Published: 2/9/2023
15. How did Minnesota become a window manufacturing hub?

    Published: 1/26/2023
16. Why are there so many stucco homes in the Twin Cities?

    Published: 1/13/2023
17. Minnesota companies once dominated the supercomputer industry. What happened?

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

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

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

    Published: 11/11/2022