TIL the Big Island of Hawaiʻi is only 400,000 years old, and the entire island chain is slowly travelling North East at around 32 miles per every million years away from the hot spot in the earth's crust that created them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands#Geology

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