Did You Know? Week of May 31, 2013

  • There are more people living on Oahu, Hawaii, than in the entire state of Alaska
  • Over half the world’s glaciers are in Alaska
  • If New York City had the same population density as Alaska there would be 16 people living in Manhattan
  • Alaska is the size of England, France, Spain, and Italy combined
  • The Alaska state flag was designed by a 13-year-old school boy in 1927, 32 years before statehood
  • Alaska has 6 times as many pilots per capita as the rest of the country
  • It is against the law to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose
  • The forget-me-not, Alaska’s state flower, grows well in most of the state’s climates