A fact from Huron University appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 May 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Huron University, the first institute of higher education to grant a degree in the then-Dakota Territory, closed in 2005 after 123 years of existence and had its assets auctioned off?
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