MINNESOTA - AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL - VIKINGS COLORS T-Shirt

MINNESOTA – The Gopher State, The Land of 10,000 Lakes, the 32nd state to join the Union – is also home to the largest shopping mall in the US, the Mall of America. This building it the size of 78 football fields, or 9.5 million square feet! MINNESOTA also boasts the oldest theater and the largest dinner theater in the nation. The state also has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined! The University of Minnesota was the first to perform a bone marrow transplant and open heart surgery. Mars candy bars were also created here. This state is also known for the invention of water skis, the stapler, the snow blower, the pop-up toaster, rollerblades, and the Honeycrisp Apple!. Bike trails here are more plentiful than any other state in the country and Eveleth is home to the US Hockey Hall of Fame. 13 of the 20 members of the 1980 US Men’s Olympic Hockey Team, which scored the greatest upset in sports history over the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, NY, were natives of the North Star State. All these fascinating facts are what make its residents proud to be an AUTHENTIC MINNESOTA ORIGINAL!