Hawaii
About Hawaii
Hawaii is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, it is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, the only state south of the Tropic of Cancer, one of only two states, along with Florida, with regions that have a tropical climate, and one of the two U.S. states, along with Texas, that were internationally recognized sovereign countries before becoming U.S. states.
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The Waikiki Spam Jam is an annual spam festival in Hawaii, and it's massively popular, with 35,000 people attending, live bands and merch.
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More facts about Hawaii
Hawaii is obsessed with spam; McDonald's and Burger King there both sell spam burgers, and it's integrated into all the local dishes.
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Traditionally, indigenous Hawaiians had personalized chants for their genitals.
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For indigenous Hawaiians nudity was not sexual; it was symbolic of death, punishment or lamentation, and anyone seen nude outside a ritual was assumed to have gone mad with grief.
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Hawaii has lots of roads that only half exist, because they keep getting covered in lava.
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Slack key guitar is a Hawaiian tradition, part of their world for hundreds of years, in which the guitar is tuned to an open set of notes.
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Physicists at the University of Hawaii recently solved the secret of how washing machines get clothes clean, which had never been known until now.
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In 2018 a wrongly pressed button set off a false alert of an incoming ballistic missile in Hawaii, and the governor couldn't correct it for 17 minutes because he didn't know how to log in to his own Twitter and Facebook.
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Mauna Loa in Hawaii, measured from the bottom of the ocean to the top, is taller than Everest.
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The baby name Abcde, pronounced ab-city, first appears in 1990, when five babies were registered with it, all of them in Hawaii.
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English has borrowed more words from Hawaiian than from Welsh, among them aloha, wiki and hula.
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For the record, the Spam Jam's spam t-shirts, shorts and slippers aren't actually made of spam, they just feature a picture of it.
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The Hawaii missile alert went out because the operator picked the wrong option, sitting right next to the test one, from a drop-down menu.
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