Fun facts about Oahu

Honolulu is the “largest” city in the world. That’s because Hawaii’s state constitution states that any island not named as belonging to a county belongs to Honolulu. This makes the entire island of Oahu, where Honolulu is located, plus all the other small, uninhabited islands, known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, part of Honolulu. Honolulu is about 1,500 miles (2,414 km) long. Or in other words, it spans the distance from Los Angeles, California, to Denver, Colorado.
Oahu is home to the world’s largest wind generator. The windmill is located on the top of a 20-story tower. It has two blades, each measuring 400 feet (122 m) in length.
Foster Botanical Garden near Iolani Palace was built in 1855, which makes it the oldest garden in Hawaii.
Waikiki attracts 72,000 visitors on any given day. That’s as much as 44 percent of all tourists present in the entire state of Hawaii.
Iolani Palace, located in downtown Honolulu, is the only royal palace in the United States.
Electric lights illuminated Iolani Palace four years before the White house had them.
Honolulu is the second most expensive city in the United States, after Anchorage, Alaska.
And a few more facts...not about Oahu...
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Fun Facts
The coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands make up about 70 percent of all the reefs in the United States.
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are a National Monument since June 15, 2006, when George W. Bush issued a public proclamation that created the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906. The Monument includes all islands and surrounding waters, making it the largest marine wildlife reserve in the world. It encompasses 139,000 square miles of ocean. That's about the size of California.
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to more than 7,000 marine species, a quarter of which are found nowhere else in the world. One such marine species are the approximately 1,400 surviving Hawaiian monk seals, which is the entire population of this endangered species. The archipelago is also the breeding ground for 90 percent of the endangered Hawaiian green sea turtle. Huge schools of fish, many seabirds and an enormous coral reef can also be found on these islands.

Today's word in Hawaiian is Nani (nah-nee) means Beautiful, pretty