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 | | Minnesota is a beautiful land for trivia, with more than enough to fill any number of empty silences at cocktail parties and awkward first dates. |
 | | Minnesota is the birthplace not only of Tonka trucks, which are made in Minnetonka (Pause for a response of, "So that's where the name came from!"), but also of scotch tape, the stapler, Wheaties, the bundt pan, HMO's, snowmobiles, waterskis, and the pop-up toaster. |
 | | The University of Minnesota medical facility is the site of the first artificial blood transfusion, the first use of the "deep-freezing" technique for open-heart surgery, the first open-heart surgery, and the first bone marrow transplant. |
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