The Entire Population of Whittier, Alaska Lives in One Building

A Pioneer Spirit

Not all of Alaska is remote, and it’s possible to live in any of the state’s more populated areas without ever going hunting or forsaking wifi, but plenty of Alaskans do it anyway. Whether the live in a city or out in the tundra, lots of people enjoy living off the land and being self-sufficient.

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The More You Know

  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
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  • Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is 'not something that we think is good for the world'.
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
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