http://www.50states.com/facts/virginia.htm
Some interesting ones:
Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.
The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry.
The Pentagon has nearly 68,000 miles of internal telephone lines.
The world's only oyster museum is on Chincoteague Island.
Virginia has been dubbed the "Internet Capital of the world".
Union Passenger Railway was the first successful electric street railway transit agency. It was formed in 1888 at Richmond.
The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia.
Didn't mean to hijack your thread....I thought this was in the off-topic forum.