America is truly the land of opportunity. According to official U.S. statistics, there are 23,559 different ways of making a living in the United States, In the dead of winter in 1898, a whaling fleet got caught in an ice jam in the Arctic Ocean. If the men were to survive, they needed help from the outside. So to save his shipmates from their icy tomb, George Tilton of Bedford, Massachusetts, volunteered to walk from Point Barrow to Kodiak Island to get help. He walked 1,200 miles through darkness, blizzards, and ice. His walk took him a total of 146 days. Believe It or Not!
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