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Hawaii has 150 recognized ecosystems.

Hawaii's “Forbidden Island” of Niihau is owned by a single family named Robinson. On Niihau, there are no phones and no electricity for the population of 250 full-blooded Hawaiians living there.

Hawaii's outer island, Kauai, is called the “Garden Island.”

Hell, Michigan, was in the news during the extremely cold winter of 1995-1996 when it froze over.

New Orleans was the U.S. Confederacy's largest city.

New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.

New York City's Central Park is nearly twice as big as the world's second-smallest country, Monaco.

Not many people outside of the small state know that there are two spectacular caves open to the public in New Hampshire: those at Lost River Reservation and the Polar Caves Park. These are both open from May through October.

Of Alaska's total surface area, 1/20 of the state is covered with glaciers, which are the main tourist attraction in the state. The glaciers range in size from 1 to 50 miles long and 300 to 10,000 feet thick.

Often, outsiders call the city of San Francisco "Frisco," a name that many residents despise. Most San Franciscans call it simply "The City," with a capital "C."

Hell's Canyon on the Snake River is deeper than the Grand Canyon.

If one were to drive from Los Angeles, California, to Reno, Nevada, the direction in which he/she would be going is northwest (check the map).

If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run just about from New York to Los Angeles.

If you want to get technical, there are really only 46 states in the United States. The reason: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia are commonwealths.

Illinois, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Alaska are the only U.S. states that do not contain the word “state” in their state nicknames; they are “Land of Lincoln;” “Land of Opportunity,” “Land of Enchantment,” and “Last Frontier,” respectively.

In 1803, North Carolina (not California) was the site of the first U.S. gold rush. The state supplied all the domestic gold coined for currency by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia until 1828.

In 1847, the coastal city of Yorba Buena in California changed its name to San Francisco. The city took its new name from St. Francis of Assisi, who is recognized as San Francisco's patron saint.

In 1932, Porto Rico was renamed Puerto Rico.

Ohio reportedly has more lawyers than all of Japan.

Oklahoma's state nickname is “sooner.” It comes from a generic Western word for a person who settled land before it was open to the public in order to establish a claim.

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