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TIL because it extends into the Eastern hemisphere, Alaska is the western most, eastern most and the northern most state of USA.

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rJN0 TIL that while filming The Wizard of Oz, the actor playing the Wizard noticed the label “L Frank Baum” in a ragged coat that had been purchased at a thrift shop for his role. The coat had been sewn for the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and was presented to his widow upon the films completion.
yQblX TIL NBA Player Jusuf Nurkic was discovered when a sports agent read a newspaper article about his 7ft/400lb father. The article stated that "Bosnian policeman, Hariz Nurkic has beaten 14 people in a fight." The sports agent found the father asked him if he had a son. Jusuf was only 14yrs old.
DL4p TIL that Miramax was owned by Disney until 2010. That makes Pulp Fiction a Disney movie.
5Y979 TIL in 1894, in the city of Passau, Germany, a local priest saved a four year old boy from drowning when he fell through the ice on a frozen river. According to many reports, historians, and locals from the time, that child was Adolf Hitler.
jNjBv TIL nearly 50 percent of Canadian soldiers are overweight, 25 percent of them are being obese, and 6.1 percent of them are morbidly obese