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* Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables) was a customs inspector in his day job.

* There's no such thing as being "double jointed." It's just that some people have more flexibility than the norm.

* The Trans-Alaska Pipeline can move up to 88,000 barrels of oil per hour. Alaska currently produces more oil than any other state -- about 25 percent of all the oil produced in the U.S.

* Joe Juneau and Richard Harris discovered gold in Alaska in 1880, starting a gold rush. Harris named the place Harrisburg, but Juneau complained that nothing was named after him. The ...

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