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In this episode, we explore minnesota from pig s eye to supercomputers. Did you know that the very first American shots of World War II were actually fired by Minnesotans? Right, which is something most people completely miss. Exactly. Or, get this, that the state's capital city was just a hair's breadth away from being named Pig's Eye. Oh yeah, after a bootlegging squatter. Yeah. So today we're taking a deep dive into the sprawling, honestly highly detailed Wikipedia archives of Minnesota. We really want to figure out how this freezing kind of isolated territory became this global hub for you know, both cut -through industry and life -saving technology. Yeah, it really is a study in how extreme geography basically forces extreme adaptation. Right. You're looking at a landscape that demanded relentless problem -solving just to survive. Right. And th ... 
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