1Rechargeable battery
The world's largest rechargeable battery is in Fairbanks, Alaska, weighs 1,400 tons and cost $35 million to build.
2Alaska and Hawaii
Alaska and Hawaii are tied as the US State with the lowest high temperature, at 100°F.
3Balto
Balto, the famous dog from the 1920s who helped save countless lives by delivering precious antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome is stuffed and mounted in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
4Alaskan state flag
The Alaskan state flag was designed by a thirteen-year-old (Benny benson) who had won a contest.
5Alaska
In the United States, Alaska is the state that is farthest north, east, and west (due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° meridian of longitude).
6Giant vegetables
The long summer days in Alaska regularly produce "Giant Vegetables" by August harvest, with produce such as 138lb cabbage and 3 feet long beans setting records at the Alaska State Fair.
7Northwest Alaska
Because of mainland Alaska's one time zone, northwest Alaska experiences two sunsets in one calendar day around August 8th.
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8Adak National Forest
The Adak National Forest in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, is the smallest National Forest in America, with only 33 trees.
9Alaskan oil pipeline
In 2001, a drunken Alaskan gunman named Daniel Carson Lewis once shot a hole in the Alaskan oil pipeline. He had to pay for the $17 million cleanups and received 16 years in jail.
101964 earthquake
The 1964 earthquake in Alaska was so big that water sloshed in the wells in Africa. It had a magnitude of 9.2, making it the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
