What few UNI alumni know -- and fewer residents of the state of Iowa know -- is that MLK visited Cedar Falls and spoke in the university's Lang Hall just five years prior to winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Though finding fossils isn't something that happens regular basis for most Iowans, there have been a few, rather gargantuan finds here in the Hawkeye State.
While Native American ceremonial mounds can be found in many different locations across the United States, according to nps.gov 'only in northeastern Iowa, along the high bluffs and lowlands of the Upper Mississippi River Valley, have so many of these mounds been found in the shape of animal effigies.'
The process of using fingerprints has been around a lot longer than you think, and a city in Iowa was the first to require all citizens to be fingerprinted.