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North Carolina Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild John Wood

North Carolina Trivia is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters:
-- The famous Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, lived in and are buried near Mount Airy, the town after which Andy Griffith modeled his Mayberry TV town.
-- George Herman Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in a scrimmage match in Fayetteville.
-- It's illegal to sing off-key in the town of Nags Head.
-- The world s largest privately owned home, measuring 175,000 square feet, is the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, built by the famous Vanderbilt family.
-- The first English colony in America was located on Roanoke Island, but the inhabitants mysteriously vanished. -- The state was the nation s biggest producer of gold, long before the California Gold Rush.
-- People from across the country meet up in Spivey's Corner and holler for all they're worth in the National Hollerin' Contest.
-- And so much more...