A fact from Temperance River appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar?
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