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Hawaii’s nickname is the “Aloha State.” The word aloha is derived from the Proto-Polynesian, alofa, and its meanings include “love,” “compassion,” and “mercy.” Aloha is used both as “hello” and “goodbye.”
The word Hawaii is from the Proto-Polynesian hawaiki, meaning “place of the gods” or “homeland.”
Hawaii is the only state that is not geographically located in North America, is completely surrounded by water, and does not have a straight line in its state boundary.
Born in Hawaii, Barack Obama is the only president from outside the continental United States.
Because of its continuous volcanic eruptions, Hawaii is the only state in the nation to have an increasing land area.
Hawaii has two official languages, Hawaiian and English, though Pidgin, Samoan, and Tongan are also spoken.
Hawaii is the only state in the nation that grows coffee, has tropical rainforests, and is made completely of islands.
In the 1960s, astronauts trained for moon voyages by walking on Mauna Loa’s hardened lava fields which resemble the surface of the moon.f
One of the earliest cases of AIDS ever recorded in the United States was in Hawaii. In May 1978, a 50-year-old Asian woman was diagnosed with the disease and died in August of that year.
The only land snake to be found in the wild in Hawaii is the tiny Hawaiian blind snake, which is thought to have arrived in plant soil brought from thePhilippines in 1929 to landscape the Kamehameha School grounds.f
Hawaii became the first state in the union to legalize abortion on demand in 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade. (Colorado legalized abortion in 1967, but only in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother.)
Hawaii 5-0 was the longest-running police drama until Law and Order. While the stars worked for the state police department in the series, in reality, Hawaii doesn’t have a statewide police department or DMV. They are managed by each county government.
Hawaii is the only state to honor a monarch, celebrating King Kamehameha Day on June 11th since 1872. Kamehameha is known for uniting the Hawaiian Islands in 1810.
Surfing, or heenalu, was invented thousands of years ago by the Polynesians who first settled Hawaii. Their boards weighed more than 150 pounds and measured up to 20 feet.
Hawaii is home to the unique “Happy Face Spider” (Theridion grallator), which bears an uncanny resemblance to a smiling face on the back of its abdomen.
Only two types of mammals are native to Hawaii: the hoary bat and the monk seal.
When written with the English alphabet, Hawaiian uses only 12 letters and a symbol (‘).
Day biting mosquitoes first arrived in Hawaii in 1872 as stowaways aboard a merchant ship, bringing with them new diseases such as malaria and the plague.
Hawaii is America’s youngest state, entering the nation on August 21, 1959.
The eight horizontal stripes on Hawaii’s flag represent each of the state’s main islands. In the upper-left corner of the flag is a small version of Britain’s flag which honors British captain George Vancouver, who gave Hawaii its first flag in 1794.

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