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TIL that the sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i was never annexed by the US by treaty; it was overthrown by the US military in 1893, and, after some shifting of power structure, has subsequently been illegally militarily occupied as a US territory, and eventually as a state after a 1959 referendum vote.

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