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What Minnesota inventions have shaped modern life?

What Minnesota inventions have shaped modern life?

Update: 2024-05-02

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Pacemakers, Post-it notes and Spam rank among the state's best-known inventions. But creative Minnesotans devised hundreds of other products we take for granted. Reporter Brooks Johnson dug into this issue for Curious Minnesota and found so many interesting Minnesota inventions that he wrote two stories.

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What Minnesota inventions have shaped modern life?

What Minnesota inventions have shaped modern life?

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