MINNEAPOLIS

THE city of Minneapolis in the United States has topped many of the headlines over the past week – for all the wrong reasons.

The death of George Floyd there sparked riots worldwide and shone a spotlight on its police, who have been reminded that black lives matter in no uncertain terms.

But here are a few more facts about Minneapolis that have nothing to do with murderous cops...

the biggest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis is not the state capital – that’s St Paul next door.

MINNEAPOLIS and St Paul are often referred to as the Twin Cities.

name of the city is attributed to Charles Hoag, the city’s first schoolmaster, who suggested Minnehapolis, derived from Minnehaha, poet Henry Longfellow’s fictional Native

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DEAD oddball pop singer Prince ( above) was born and raised in Minneapolis and he learned to suck his own cock in the city.

AROUND three- fifths of the population of Minneapolis is of German or Scandinavian descent.

2012, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosted the world’s first Internet Cat Video Festival, which was, well... a celebration of cat videos on the Internet. An estimated 10,000 people showed up for the event.

MINNEAPOLIS sports broadcaster Halsey Hall was the first person to say “Holy cow!” on radio to describe a baseball home run.

THE city has more golfers per capita than anywhere else in the United States.

was invented in 1898 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis by medical student Johnny Campbell.

MINNEAPOLIS is also home to the Guinness Book of World Records holder for the Quietest Place on Earth – a special chamber at Orfield Laboratories used for acoustics research.