·        In 1941, Nashville was granted the first FM license in the United States. Today, we could hardly imagine listening to music without FM radio in our cars or on our bedside clock-radios.

·        The Standard Candy Company uses more than 3 million pounds of chocolate a year. Founded in 1901, it is the home of a native Nashville confection called the GooGoo. The GooGoo is a cluster of peanuts, caramel, marshmallow and milk chocolate. It is said that GOO stands for Grand Ole Opry.

·        When you visit the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum, be sure to take a close looking at the building. On one end is an RKO-style radio tower, while the main building has tall, narrow windows resembling a piano keyboard. The entire building then scoops up and out in an upswept angle, much in the shape of a classic Cadillac tailfin.

·        Pioneers built Fort Nashborough along the banks of the Cumberland River. Among the early settlers was Rachel Donelson, who would later become the wife of President Andrew Jackson. Our seventh President's Nashville home, The Hermitage, has a driveway (originally for horse-drawn wagons, of course) that just happens to be in the shape of a guitar. Hmm. Was it a premonition on President Jackson's part? A visit to The Hermitage may answer that question.

·        Fun facts about Nashville wouldn't be complete with some mention of "The King", Elvis Presley. Elvis recorded more than 200 of his songs at RCA's historic Studio B on Music Row. If you stop in for a visit, you may notice the red, green and blue lights in the studio. Those were installed when Elvis was recording one of his Christmas albums. In order for it to be released in time for the holiday season, it was recorded in July. Not hardly filled with the Christmas spirit in the middle of summer, the crew decided to string lights, put up a Christmas tree and turn the air conditioning up as high as it would go to create the festive atmosphere. To this day, the lights remain to commemorate their ingenuity and dedication 

·       The words "good to the last drop" were first uttered by President Franklin Roosevelt, after sipping coffee at the Maxwell House Hotel. Those words became the slogan for the Maxwell House coffee brand, a coffee created locally by the Cheek family, whose home is now Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art.

·       Cotton candy was invented in Nashville, TN. Cotton candy was invented in 1897 by William Morrison and John C. Wharton, candy makers from Nashville, TN. They invented a device that heated sugar in a spinning bowl that had tiny holes in it. It formed a treat that they originally called "Fairy Floss." As the bowl spun around, the caramelized sugar was forced through the tiny holes, making feathery candy that melts in the mouth. Morrison and Wharton introduced cotton candy to the world at the St. Louis World's Fair (1904) and sold huge amounts of it for 25 cents a box (that was a substantial amount of money back then). They sold about 68,655 boxes at that fair. The term "cotton candy" began to be used in the USA around 1920. In the United Kingdom, this treat is called "candy floss."

·       The Belle Meade Plantation was the origin of many fine thoroughbred horses. Among them were War Admiral and Seabiscuit, both of which were again popularized by the 2001 novel and 2003 movie, Seabiscuit. War Admiral and Seabiscuit were actually descended from the sires of Bonnie Scotland, a prize horse of Belle Meade, making them not-so-distant cousins. Iroquois, also bred at Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation, was the first American winner of the English Derby in 1881. Such modern thoroughbreds as Secretariat trace their bloodlines to Iroquois

·        Nashville was founded on Christmas Eve 1779.

·       Retired Nashville Captain William Driver gave the American flag its most famous nickname, "Old Glory”.

·        The first guide dog for the blind in the U.S. lived in Nashville with her owner Morris Frank.  “Buddy” was trained in Switzerland by The Seeing Eye, the first organization to train guide dogs.

·       The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville is the longest continuously running live radio program in the world.  It has broadcast every weekend since 1925