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Virginia Fun Facts
- The annual Delmarva Chicken Festival uses one of the world's largest frying pans. Built in 1950, the behemoth pan is 10 feet in diameter, can hold up to 180 gallons of oil, and can fry up 800 chicken quarters at once. The pan is nearly twice the size of an average Jacuzzi!
- The world record for the longest gum wrapper chain record belongs to a man from Virginia Beach. Gary Duschle's creation stretches 8.13-miles, nearly one quarter of the 38-mile shoreline along Virginia Beach.
North Carolina Fun Facts
- North Carolina shore's Outer Banks have a unique pirating history. The famed Blackbeard lived, intimidated, thieved, boozed, married, pirated, and died on and along the Outer Banks.
- In 1898, Pepsi-Cola was invented as a health drink and indigestion tonic by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern, North Carolina.
- More than 185 movies have been filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the city was used as scenery for the popular TV series Dawson's Creek. Popular films with scenes shot in the city include “The Jackal,” “Empire Records,” “Message in a Bottle,” “Sleeping with the Enemy,” and “Weekend at Bernie's.”
- Many people know that Wilbur and Orville Wright were responsible for the first airplane flight at Kill Devil Hill, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, in North Carolina's Outer Banks in 1903. Few know that their first successful flight lasted a mere 12 seconds.
Facts about Richmond and Williamsburg
- In 1716, the first theater in the U.S. opened its doors for business in Williamsburg, Virginia. About three decades later, the city of Williamsburg purchased the theater and converted it into a court building. The building once sat on what is now Colonial Williamsburg's Palace Green.
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