stephen king is the most banned author in u.s. schools. just 3 states have by far the most attempts to ban books: florida, tennessee, and texas.

of the 12 southern states that seceded during the civil war, 7 stated in their secession declarations that the reason that they were seceding was to protect slavery.

in tennessee, it's against the law to give your netflix password to anyone who is not a member of your family.

only 3 states have laws that specifically bar women from going topless in public: indiana, tennessee, and utah.

florida, arkansas, south carolina and tennessee all ave laws that state that any employee who is fired for not following an employer's standards of conduct cannot receive unemployment - regardless of what those standards of conduct entail.

the 10 states that are most reliant on federal funding, from most to least:

• new mexico
• mississippi
• alabama
• louisiana
• montana
• maine
• tennessee
• south dakota
• arizona
• west virginia

shanyna isom of memphis, tn, has a condition that appears to have resulted from a bad reaction to a steroid, that doctors have been unable to figure out or treat. every hair follicle on her body suddenly began to produce black fingernails, resulting in something like porcupine quills.

more than us$500,000 in unpaid medical bills later, doctors are no closer to finding an explanation or a cure, and say that shanyna is the only person in the world with this condition.