Virginia Facts

Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.

In 1959, the USPS attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile and successfully shipped 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida in 22 minutes.

A woman drove her SUV into the water behind a Virginia Beach seafood restaurant. The doors wouldn't open. Strangers smashed the windows as it sank. One of them was Jeremy Way - a 17-year Navy rescue swimmer who happened to be eating lunch nearby. He put her in a cross-chest carry and swam her to safety. The SUV vanished moments later.

Officer Mohammed Suleiman watched a car sink nose-first into a Virginia pond with a woman trapped inside. He smashed her window and cut her seatbelt while other officers and bystanders linked hands, wading into the water to form a human chain. Together, they pulled her to shore. She survived with only minor injuries.