Tennessee

• Tennessee is the birthplace of the tow truck, Ernest Holmes, of Chatanooga, invented the vehicle in 1916.

• According to Google Maps, a street in Collierville has a speed limit of 19 mph.

• Theodore Roosevelt coined the phrase “good to the last drop” after tasting a cup of coffee at the Maxwell House Hotel.

•  Creator of the world famous Tennessee Whiskey, Jack Daniel’s died after angrily kicking a safe and hurting his toe, leading to the blood infection that would be his demise.

• Reelfoot Lake was created by a series of earthquakes in the 1800s. The earthquakes were so powerful, it caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards!


• Driving is not to be done while asleep.

• Dyersburg - It is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.

• It's actually a misdemeanor to tattoo a minor in Tennessee.

• Memphis - it is illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it, waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians.

• It is illegal to catch a fish with a lasso.

• It's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM.

• It's illegal to own a racoon as a pet in Tennessee.

• If eight or more women are living together in Tennessee, the house is considered a brothel.

• The only animal that is legal to shoot out of a moving car via the window is a whale.

• Oneida - it is technically considered illegal for a woman to call a man up on the phone and ask him out on a date.


• Adams - The Bell Witch Cave - Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

• Oak Ridge - "The Secret City" - The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

• Erwin - Lost Cove Settlement - Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

• Pigeon Forge - Titanic Museum Attraction - A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

• Memphis - St. Peter’s Spiritual Temple (Voodoo Village) - A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.