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| National Association of Priest Pilots | 2026-02-17 | | 4,084 | 340.4 | ... that the Flying Padres use aviation to evangelize? |
| List of Chaplain Corps Medal of Honor recipients | 2026-02-09 | | 9,054 | 377.2 | ... that all five chaplains awarded the Medal of Honor since the American Civil War were Catholic priests? |
| Bob Casey (baseball announcer) | 2025-12-31 | | 18,888 | 787.0 | ... that there is "noooooooooooooo smoking" in the Metrodome? |
| 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? |
| Darius Holland | 2025-12-15 | | 8,627 | 359.5 | ... that a Super Bowl-winning defensive tackle went on to become a U.S. Army chaplain? |
| Rocking bed |
2025-12-15 |
 |
14,800 |
616.7 |
... 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? |
| Jessie Wright |
2,427 |
101.1 |
| The Watson Institute |
2,000 |
83.3 |
| Total | 19,227 | 801.1 |
| Camp Lakeview | 2025-12-11 | | 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? |
| Marian Days |
2025-12-06 |
|
4,548 |
189.5 |
... that tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics travel to Missouri annually to attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College? |
| Our Lady of the Ozarks College |
3,053 |
127.2 |
| Total | 7,600 | 316.7 |
| Sweet Martha's Cookies | 2025-09-22 | | 4,291 | 357.6 | ... that Sweet Martha's Cookies bakes around three million cookies on the busiest days of the Minnesota State Fair? |
| Mary Jo Copeland |
2025-09-20 |
 |
7,238 |
339.8 |
... that Mary Jo Copeland (pictured) received the Presidential Citizens Medal from Barack Obama for founding Sharing and Caring Hands? |
| Sharing and Caring Hands |
3,602 |
169.1 |
| Total | 10,840 | 508.9 |
| 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? |
| On Eagle's Wings | 2025-08-06 | | 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| Valhalla (Camp Ripley) | 2025-08-03 | | 16,586 | 691.1 | ... that American president Harry S. Truman went to Valhalla? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| Papal inauguration of Pope Leo XIV | 2025-07-06 | | 7,230 | 301.2 | ... that some people chanted "USA, USA!" and others waved Peruvian flags at the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| Royal 10 | 2025-06-24 |  | 4,996 | 416.3 | ... that a Royal 10 (pictured) used in the music video for "Fortnight" caused an interest in typewriters among Swifties? |
| 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? |
| William F. J. Ryan | 2025-06-17 | | 2,740 | 228.3 | ... that William F. J. Ryan designed more than 1,000 coats of arms for bishops, dioceses, and institutions? |
| Family of Pope Leo XIV | 2025-05-26 | | 13,432[a] | 559.7 | ... that Pope Leo XIV descends from Creole people of color? |
| St. Augustine Seminary High School | 2025-05-24 | | 3,183 | 265.2 | ... that Pope Leo XIV was the editor-in-chief of his high school's yearbook? |
| Fat pope, thin pope | 2025-05-07 | | 28,441[b] | 1,185.0 | ... that an Italian adage says that a fat pope follows a thin one? |
| Collection for the Holy Places | 2025-04-28 | | 5,108 | 212.9 | ... that the Catholic Church takes up a collection for Christians in the Holy Land annually on Good Friday? |
| Carl James Joseph | 2025-04-20 |  | 44,930 | 1,872.1 | ... that the Jesus Guy (pictured) does not portray Jesus, nor does he claim to be Jesus? |
| Jeep ducking | 2025-03-30 | | 18,802 | 783.4 | ... that some Jeep owners enjoy ducking each other? |
| Razzouk Tattoo | 2025-03-23 |  | 24,356 | 1,014.8 | ... that Razzouk Tattoo in Jerusalem has been giving tattoos to Christian pilgrims (process pictured) for more than 250 years? |
| 2019 Mall of America murder attempt | 2025-03-21 | | 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? |
| Hennepin Avenue Bridge (1855) | 2025-03-21 | | 4,477 | 373.1 | ... that the Hennepin Avenue Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi River? |
| Benevacantism | 2025-03-16 | | 7,525 | 627.1 | ... that Benevacantism is the belief that Francis is not truly the pope, because his predecessor did not validly resign? |
| Grain Belt Brewery | 2025-03-06 |  | 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? |
| Hennepin Avenue Bridge | 2025-03-09 | | 8,232 | 343.0 | ... that the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge was called "elegant" while also having a "Mussolini kind of quality"? |
| Hennepin Avenue Bridge (1888) | 2025-03-07 | | 3,846 | 320.5 | ... that the Hennepin Avenue Steel Arch Bridge had to be put up for sale before it could be demolished? |
| Grain Belt Beer Sign | 2025-03-01 |  | 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? |
| Antiqua et nova | 2025-02-26 | | 4,950 | 412.5 | ... that Antiqua et nova is a Vatican document that expresses serious ethical concerns surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence? |
| Rosalind Gefre | 2025-02-18 | | 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? |
| Justus Trettel | 2025-02-18 | | 11,039 | 460.0 | ... that Benedictine monk Brother Justus helped make stills so that farmers could illegally make alcohol during Prohibition? |
| Carlos Miguel Buela | 2025-02-14 | | 4,181 | 348.4 | ... that Carlos Miguel Buela repeatedly disobeyed sanctions placed on him by the Holy See? |
| Church of St. Casimir (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
2025-02-12 |
 |
3,338 |
278.2 |
... that Victor Cordella designed around twenty churches in Minnesota, including the Church of St. Casimir (pictured)? |
| Victor Cordella |
2,684 |
223.6 |
| Total | 6,022 | 501.8 |
| Santa Ynez Reservoir | 2025-02-11 | | 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? |
| Bugia (candlestick) | 2025-02-04 | | 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? |
| Artur Bubnevych | 2025-01-28 | | 5,397 | 224.9 | ... that the Ruthenian Catholic bishop Artur Bubnevych earned a degree in Gaming? |
| 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? |
| John Roach (bishop) | 2025-01-15 | | 9,358 | 389.9 | ... that Archbishop John Roach received a standing ovation for admitting his alcoholism? |
| Jijin | 2025-01-11 | | 6,474 | 539.5 | ... that for cultural reasons the jijin was permitted to be worn by Catholic priests in China even while celebrating Mass? |
| First Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) | 2025-01-05 |  | 4,384 | 365.3 | ... that the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was named after a log chapel (pictured)? |
| William Hamm Jr. | 2025-01-08 | | 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| Third Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
2024-12-19 |
|
3,149 |
131.2 |
... that the offices of Hamm's Brewery in Saint Paul, Minnesota, were built on the site of the city's third cathedral? |
| Hamm Building |
1,654 |
68.9 |
| Total | 4,804 | 200.1 |
| James Michael Reardon | 2024-12-18 | | 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? |
| 7th National Eucharistic Congress (United States) | 2024-12-13 | | 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? |
| 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? |
| The Catholic Spirit | 2024-12-07 | | 6,609 | 275.4 | ... that a priest canceled 1,600 subscriptions to The Catholic Bulletin over a front-page photograph of nuns dancing? |
| Francis L. Sampson | 2024-11-28 |  | 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? |
| 6th National Eucharistic Congress (United States) | 2024-11-24 | | 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? |
| Francis W. Kelly | 2024-11-04 | | 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? |
| Patrick J. Hessian | 2024-09-20 |  | 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? |
| 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? |
| 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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