9 Incredible, Unbelievable Facts About Minnesota

If you weren't impressed by Minnesota already, these incredible facts about this state will blow your mind. People who make fun of Minnesota can just stay away, it just leaves more of the state for us!

Many sources were used to find these facts about Minnesota, including: US Census, MN Dept of Natural Resources, MN Office of Higher Education, History.com, OnlyInYourState.com, and more. This is the ultimate list of 'Minnesota coolness'!

Minnesota has a total of 69,200 miles of rivers and streams. You could circle the globe almost 3 times!

Minnesota river

The number of turkeys raised in Minnesota yearly is more than the entire population of California.

Turkey on Platter

Minnesota has almost 910,000 registered recreational boats. That ends up being 1 boat for every 6 people that live here.

Man boating on lake

The population of white-tailed deer outnumbers our college student population by 3 times.

Whitetail Deer

Minnesota is home to 3 million cows, which exceeds the population of people in 20 different states.

Two cows giging performance

The world-famous Mall of America could house 32 Boeing 747 airplanes at the same time.

Mall of America

Minnesota's surface water totals 13,136,357 acres. That's more than the total acres of land in Hawaii and New Jersey combined.

View peaceful lake

Minnesota reels in close to 18,900,000 pounds of fish each year from our lakes, rivers and streams. You could fill the beds of over 10,000 full-size pickup trucks with that much fish.

Large Mouth Bass Fish

This past year (2015), the MN State Fair had a record 1,779,738 fair-goers, that's the amount of people the new Vikings stadium could fill almost 25 times!