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| Bob Casey (baseball announcer) |
2025-12-31 |
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18,888 |
787.0 |
... that there is "noooooooooooooo smoking" in the Metrodome?
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| Longfellow Boom |
2025-12-21 |
|
17,758 |
739.9 |
... that the mysterious Longfellow Boom has been attributed to rail cars coupling, secret NORAD flights, an underground meth lab, or a fault line in the Mississippi River?
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| Darius Holland |
2025-12-15 |
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8,627 |
359.5 |
... that a Super Bowl-winning defensive tackle went on to become a U.S. Army chaplain?
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| Rocking bed
|
2025-12-15
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14,800
|
616.7
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... that Jessie Wright, director of physical medicine at the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children, helped invent the rocking bed (pictured) as a treatment for polio?
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| Jessie Wright
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2,427
|
101.1
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| The Watson Institute
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2,000
|
83.3
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| Total |
19,227 |
801.1
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| Camp Lakeview |
2025-12-11 |
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4,168 |
173.6 |
... that the Minnesota and Wisconsin National Guards may have shot cannonballs across the Mississippi River at each other during artillery competitions at Camp Lakeview?
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| Marian Days
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2025-12-06
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4,548
|
189.5
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... that tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics travel to Missouri annually to attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College?
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| Our Lady of the Ozarks College
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3,053
|
127.2
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| Total |
7,600 |
316.7
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| Sweet Martha's Cookies |
2025-09-22 |
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4,291 |
357.6 |
... that Sweet Martha's Cookies bakes around three million cookies on the busiest days of the Minnesota State Fair?
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| Mary Jo Copeland
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2025-09-20
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7,238
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339.8
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... that Mary Jo Copeland (pictured) received the Presidential Citizens Medal from Barack Obama for founding Sharing and Caring Hands?
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| Sharing and Caring Hands
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3,602
|
169.1
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| Total |
10,840 |
508.9
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| Joseph Buh |
2025-09-08 |
 |
9,138 |
380.8 |
... that Joseph Buh (pictured), a Slovene Catholic missionary priest in Minnesota, was called Meshidong or 'Long Beard' by the Ojibwe?
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| On Eagle's Wings |
2025-08-06 |
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12,229 |
509.5 |
... that "On Eagle's Wings" was quoted in Joe Biden's presidential victory speech and featured in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
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| Pope Leo XIV's childhood home |
2025-08-25 |
|
12,549 |
522.9 |
... that the village of Pope Leo XIV's childhood home plans to turn it into a historic site?
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| 1975 Jubilee ordination |
2025-08-13 |
|
8,038 |
334.9 |
... that Pope Paul VI ordained more than 350 men as priests in a ceremony that lasted over three hours?
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| Valhalla (Camp Ripley) |
2025-08-03 |
|
16,586 |
691.1 |
... that American president Harry S. Truman went to Valhalla?
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| Thomas Mooney (American chaplain) |
2025-07-26 |
|
11,159 |
465.0 |
... that American Civil War chaplain Thomas Mooney was pulled from service after baptizing a cannon?
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| Canons Regular of St. John Cantius |
2025-07-23 |
|
2,710 |
112.9 |
... that the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius have trained some 2,000 priests in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Mass?
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| Papal inauguration of Pope Leo XIV |
2025-07-06 |
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7,230 |
301.2 |
... that some people chanted "USA, USA!" and others waved Peruvian flags at the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV?
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| Mendel Catholic High School |
2025-06-26 |
 |
4,872 |
406.0 |
... that Mendel Catholic High School (pictured) raised $15 million through hosting weekly house dances from 1975?
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| James M. Goodhue |
2025-06-26 |
|
3,550 |
295.8 |
... that Minnesota Pioneer editor James M. Goodhue called a judge "absentee", after which the judge's brother stabbed him?
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| Royal 10 |
2025-06-24 |
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4,996 |
416.3 |
... that a Royal 10 (pictured) used in the music video for "Fortnight" caused an interest in typewriters among Swifties?
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| Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul I |
2025-06-18 |
|
2,680 |
223.3 |
... that Pope John Paul I broke with tradition by declining to be crowned with a tiara at his inauguration?
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| William F. J. Ryan |
2025-06-17 |
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2,740 |
228.3 |
... that William F. J. Ryan designed more than 1,000 coats of arms for bishops, dioceses, and institutions?
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| Family of Pope Leo XIV |
2025-05-26 |
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13,432[a] |
559.7 |
... that Pope Leo XIV descends from Creole people of color?
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| St. Augustine Seminary High School |
2025-05-24 |
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3,183 |
265.2 |
... that Pope Leo XIV was the editor-in-chief of his high school's yearbook?
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| Fat pope, thin pope |
2025-05-07 |
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28,441[b] |
1,185.0 |
... that an Italian adage says that a fat pope follows a thin one?
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| Collection for the Holy Places |
2025-04-28 |
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5,108 |
212.9 |
... that the Catholic Church takes up a collection for Christians in the Holy Land annually on Good Friday?
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| Carl James Joseph |
2025-04-20 |
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44,930 |
1,872.1 |
... that the Jesus Guy (pictured) does not portray Jesus, nor does he claim to be Jesus?
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| Jeep ducking |
2025-03-30 |
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18,802 |
783.4 |
... that some Jeep owners enjoy ducking each other?
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| Razzouk Tattoo |
2025-03-23 |
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24,356 |
1,014.8 |
... that Razzouk Tattoo in Jerusalem has been giving tattoos to Christian pilgrims (process pictured) for more than 250 years?
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| 2019 Mall of America murder attempt |
2025-03-21 |
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10,074 |
839.5 |
... that a five-year-old boy thrown from a third-floor balcony in the Mall of America was released from the hospital just in time for his first day of kindergarten?
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| Hennepin Avenue Bridge (1855) |
2025-03-21 |
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4,477 |
373.1 |
... that the Hennepin Avenue Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi River?
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| Benevacantism |
2025-03-16 |
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7,525 |
627.1 |
... that Benevacantism is the belief that Francis is not truly the pope, because his predecessor did not validly resign?
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| Grain Belt Brewery |
2025-03-06 |
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13,070 |
1,089.2 |
... that the Grain Belt Brewery (pictured) was built with four distinct architectural sections, in homage to the four companies that combined to form it?
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| Hennepin Avenue Bridge |
2025-03-09 |
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8,232 |
343.0 |
... that the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge was called "elegant" while also having a "Mussolini kind of quality"?
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| Hennepin Avenue Bridge (1888) |
2025-03-07 |
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3,846 |
320.5 |
... that the Hennepin Avenue Steel Arch Bridge had to be put up for sale before it could be demolished?
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| Grain Belt Beer Sign |
2025-03-01 |
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17,216 |
717.4 |
... that the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign (pictured) dropped from $48,000 to $7,500 after it was renovated with LED lighting?
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| Antiqua et nova |
2025-02-26 |
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4,950 |
412.5 |
... that Antiqua et nova is a Vatican document that expresses serious ethical concerns surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence?
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| Rosalind Gefre |
2025-02-18 |
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8,765 |
365.2 |
... that by 2006, Catholic sister Rosalind "Sister Roz" Gefre had given an estimated 7,000 massages at St. Paul Saints baseball games?
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| Justus Trettel |
2025-02-18 |
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11,039 |
460.0 |
... that Benedictine monk Brother Justus helped make stills so that farmers could illegally make alcohol during Prohibition?
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| Carlos Miguel Buela |
2025-02-14 |
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4,181 |
348.4 |
... that Carlos Miguel Buela repeatedly disobeyed sanctions placed on him by the Holy See?
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| Church of St. Casimir (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
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2025-02-12
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3,338
|
278.2
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... that Victor Cordella designed around twenty churches in Minnesota, including the Church of St. Casimir (pictured)?
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| Victor Cordella
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2,684
|
223.6
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| Total |
6,022 |
501.8
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| Santa Ynez Reservoir |
2025-02-11 |
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9,224 |
384.4 |
... that the Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades, which was built to provide water for firefighting, was empty when the 2025 Palisades Fire began?
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| Bugia (candlestick) |
2025-02-04 |
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5,094 |
212.3 |
... that the bugia, a ceremonial candlestick used by Latin Catholic bishops, is named after the Algerian city of Béjaïa, which was a source of candle wax?
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| Artur Bubnevych |
2025-01-28 |
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5,397 |
224.9 |
... that the Ruthenian Catholic bishop Artur Bubnevych earned a degree in Gaming?
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| Second Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
2025-01-25 |
|
2,102 |
175.1 |
... that despite having built a cathedral, Bishop Joseph Crétin said that his diocese did not have one?
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| John Roach (bishop) |
2025-01-15 |
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9,358 |
389.9 |
... that Archbishop John Roach received a standing ovation for admitting his alcoholism?
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| Jijin |
2025-01-11 |
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6,474 |
539.5 |
... that for cultural reasons the jijin was permitted to be worn by Catholic priests in China even while celebrating Mass?
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| First Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
2025-01-05 |
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4,384 |
365.3 |
... that the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was named after a log chapel (pictured)?
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| William Hamm Jr. |
2025-01-08 |
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5,041 |
420.1 |
... that the FBI's first successful use of silver nitrate to identify fingerprints was in solving the kidnapping of a brewery executive?
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| Saint Peter's Church (Mendota, Minnesota) |
2025-01-06 |
|
2,534 |
211.2 |
... that St. Peter's Catholic Church is the oldest church in continuous use in the state of Minnesota?
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| The Minnesota Pioneer to its Patrons |
2024-12-26 |
|
4,085 |
170.2 |
... that American president Zachary Taylor is mentioned in a poem about the conversion of Saint Paul?
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| St. Gregory the Great Seminary |
2024-12-22 |
|
2,610 |
108.8 |
... that St. Gregory the Great Seminary was founded in a former juvenile mental hospital?
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| Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary |
2024-12-20 |
|
2,919 |
121.6 |
... that the clergy of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis were upset about the sale of Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary after its closure?
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| Third Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota)
|
2024-12-19
|
|
3,149
|
131.2
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... that the offices of Hamm's Brewery in Saint Paul, Minnesota, were built on the site of the city's third cathedral?
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| Hamm Building
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1,654
|
68.9
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| Total |
4,804 |
200.1
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| James Michael Reardon |
2024-12-18 |
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10,312 |
429.6 |
... that after he did not come home for dinner, James Michael Reardon's assistant priests found that he had died in his basilica while praying?
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| 7th National Eucharistic Congress (United States) |
2024-12-13 |
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4,118 |
171.6 |
... that a future World War II aircraft carrier was used as a hotel during the 7th National Eucharistic Congress in 1935?
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| Patrick J. Ryan (chaplain) |
2024-12-12 |
|
6,625 |
276.0 |
... that U.S. Army chaplain Patrick Ryan celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for 10,000 people after the liberation of Rome?
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| The Catholic Spirit |
2024-12-07 |
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6,609 |
275.4 |
... that a priest canceled 1,600 subscriptions to The Catholic Bulletin over a front-page photograph of nuns dancing?
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| Francis L. Sampson |
2024-11-28 |
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33,136 |
1,380.7 |
... that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson (pictured) was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before?
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| 6th National Eucharistic Congress (United States) |
2024-11-24 |
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3,266 |
136.1 |
... that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress?
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| Francis W. Kelly |
2024-11-04 |
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9,866 |
410.9 |
... that Marine chaplain Francis W. Kelly was known as "Father Foxhole" for his presence on the front lines of the Pacific Theater?
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| Patrick J. Hessian |
2024-09-20 |
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22,050 |
918.8 |
... that Patrick J. Hessian (pictured), the 16th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army, earned the Soldier's Medal for disarming a suicidal soldier who was holding a live grenade with the pin pulled?
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| 8th National Eucharistic Congress (United States) |
2024-08-23 |
|
5,518 |
229.9 |
... that a 1938 Catholic procession featured 80,000 marchers and one blimp?
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| Coon Rapids Dam |
2024-07-20 |
|
6,994 |
291.4 |
... that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?
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