Enjoy these interesting facts about North Carolina.

- Krispy Kreme Doughnut was founded in Winston-Salem.

- Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was born in the Waxsaws area on the border of North and South Carolina.

- Arnold Palmer recognized as the player whose aggressive play and winning personality raised golf to national attention, honed his skills on the championship golf team of Wake Forest University.

- Hiram Rhoades Revels, born in Fayetteville in 1822, was the first African-American member of the United States Congress.

- Fontana Dam is the tallest dam in the Eastern United States, at 480 feet high.

- Many people believe that North Carolina was the first state to declare independence from England with the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.

- Pepsi was invented and first served in New Bern in 1898.

- The first miniature golf course was built in Fayetteville.

- Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Fayetteville on March 7, 1914.

- Grandfather Mountain, highest peak in the Blue Ridge, is the only private park in the world designated by the United Nations as an International Biosphere Reserve.

- The Mile-High Swinging Bridge near Linville is 5,305 feet above sea level. The bridge actually hangs about 80 feet above the ground.

- James K. Polk, born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, was the eleventh President of the United States.

- Beech Mountain is Eastern America's highest town at 5,506ft above sea level.

- The first English child born in America was born in Roanoke in 1587. Her name was Virginia Dare.

- The Lost Colony Outdoor Drama in Albemarle commemorates the birth of Virginia Dare. Scheduled to run just one year, it proved so successful that it has played for nearly sixty consecutive summers.

- Winston-Salem was created when the two towns Winston and Salem combined.

- Andrew Johnson started his career as a tailor's apprentice in Raleigh, North Carolina and rose to lead in the reuniting of the nation as the seventeenth President of the United States.

- North Carolina leads the nation in furniture, tobacco, brick, and textile production.

- Saluda, North Carolina is located at the top of the Saluda Grade. The crest of the steepest standard gauge mainline railroad in the United States.

- State Motto: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)

- The Biltmore Estate in Ashville is America's largest home, and includes a 255-room chateau, an award-winning winery and extensive gardens.

- The first state owned art museum in the country is located in Raleigh.

- The Venus Fly-Trap is native to Hampstead.

- The town of Wendell town was named for the American writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes.