Featured on the family blog

My cool older sister just featured me on the family blog. She shared some pretty cool facts about North Carolina that I wanted to share with my faithful (lol) blog followers. Here goes:

"Did you know that…

• Raleigh is known as the “City of Oaks” for its many oak trees.
• The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island
• As of 2011, Time ranked Raleigh, NC as the third most educated city in the US based on the percentage of residents who held college degrees. This statistic can most likely be credited to the presence of universities in and around Raleigh, as well as the presence of Research Triangle Park to the Northwest.
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States.
• The first known miniature golf course was in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
• The Wright brothers completed the first successful flight of a mechanically propelled airplane over the sands of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903.
• North Carolina is the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the nation. Students at a Wilson County school petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly for the establishment of the sweet potato as the official state vegetable.
• The first Pepsi was created and served in New Bern, North Carolina in 1898 .
• The Venus Fly-Trap is native to Hampstead.
• The General Assembly of 2005 adopted Clogging as the official folk dance of North Carolina."