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TIL that Alaska is the easternmost state in the United States, as a part of the Aleutian Islands is technically in the eastern hemisphere

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8e16a TIL that American citizens must have a valid U.S. passport to enter American Samoa
pZde TIL an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deers, apes and elephants.
aw6O0 TIL Harry Glicken's was devastated when his mentor David Johnson died during the eruption of Mt St Helens in 1980. Glicken met the same fate 11 year's later during the eruption of Mt Unzen in Japan. Glicken and Johnson are the only American volcanologists to have died in volcanic eruptions.
R50el TIL that during the Mexican revolution (1910-1920) 2 presidents were exiled and 4 were assassinated or murdered.
9wQnr TIL: People with blue eyes have a higher rate of alcoholism than people with dark eyes