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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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Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state in the union. It is bordered by 8 states. |
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Cumberland University, located in Lebanon,Tennessee lost a football game to Georgia Tech on October 7, 1916 by a score of 222 to 0. The Georgia Tech coach was George Heisman for whom the Heisman Trophy is named. |
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