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| Tennessee Facts |
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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee is at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in 1968. The museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. |
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Grinders Switch, entertainer Minnie Pearl's fictitious hometown, is now an entertainment complex in her real hometown of Centerville, Tennessee. |
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The city of Murfreesboro, Tennessee lies in the exact geographical center of the state. |
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