The Peculiar Reason Chicken, Alaska Got Its Name

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

Today in 1867, Secretary of State William Seward agreed to a deal to acquire the land now known as Alaska. It's an unusual state in many ways, and here's the story of an unusual town that was supposed to be named for one bird but got named after a different one instead. Plus: an unusual website called “Just the Punctuation" lets you type in any text you want and then takes all the words out.

Chicken (Travel Alaska)

Got commas? (Bookofjoe)

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