Curious Facts 22

Grandmother hauls in a 31 pounder

Google has driverless cars, check out the Fedex driverless van demo in Columbia

Memorial Day has its roots in Tennessee and in the south but does not include Confederate soldiers

Don’t Look Ethel – Knoxville was the Streaking Capitol of the World

Electric Chair – Tennessee’s “Old Smokey”

Real life “21 Jump Street” happened in Carter County

Full Scale Millennium Falcon is being built in Middle Tennessee

Elvis played the Opry only once and was told by the Opry after the show he’d be better off driving a truck

Knoxville World’s Fair, expected to make $5 million only made $57

Before Tennessee there was the State Of Franklin an independent nation