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My08 TIL that in the late 1970’s it was completely legal to smoke marijuana in one’s home for personal use in Alaska.
eR5n TIL that on February 1, 2012, the workers at a store in King Cove, Alaska, left a half hour early because the weather was bad. 15 minutes later, an avalanche slammed into the store’s warehouse, annihilating it. And it was all caught on three separate security cameras.
RRJw TIL that a ship sank in Alaska waters during the gold rush with as much as $260 million in gold aboard that’s never been recovered.