- More than one-third of the world’s pineapples come from Hawaii
- At 2,390 miles from California, 3,850 miles from Japan, 4,900 miles from China, and 5,280 miles from the Philippines, Hawaii is the most isolated population center on earth
- Hawaii has it’s own time zone, which is two hours behind Pacific time
- At more than 20 stories tall and blades the length of a football field, the world’s largest wind turbine is located on Oahu
- Despite it’s location surrounded by water, there are no seagulls in Hawaii
- Residents of Hawaii have the longest average lifespan of any state
- In the Hawaiian language every word and every syllable end with a vowel
- It’s impolite to refuse a lei, remove it in front of the person who gave it to you, wear one that you intend to give to someone else, throw one away, or give a tied lei to a pregnant woman
