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Rodeo
is
the
official
state
sport
of
Texas,
though
High
School
Football
is
more
popular.
Early
Spanish
missionaries
in
Texas
hoped
to
encourage
the
spread
of
European
values
by
offering
flannel
underwear
to
Native
Americans.
People
who
moved
to
Lockhart,
Texas
in
the
1950s
are
still
considered
by
natives
of
the
town
to
be
newcomers.
There
are
stalactites
and
stalagmites
in
the
breezeway
at
the
University
of
Texas
Law
School.
For
$150
you
can
become
a
licensed
dead
animal
hauler
in
Texas.
Fifty
years
ago,
you
could
have
been
jailed
for
giving
out
or
discussing
information
on
birth
contro
Seventy-five
percent
of
the
world's
Snickers
bars
are
made
in
Waco
at
the
M&M/Mars
plant.
Texas
boasts
the
largest
of
all
the
state
capitol
buildings,
constructed
of
15,000
carloads
of
pink
granite.
Will
Rogers'
father
and
uncle
were
boyhood
friends
of
Sam
Houston.
Their
half
sister,
Will
Rogers'
aunt,
was
also
Sam
Houston's
Indian
wife.
In
Texas,
it's
illegal
to
put
graffiti
on
someone
else's
cow.
In
Houston
it
is
illegal
to
sell
Limburger
cheese
on
Sunday.
The
World’s
largest
parking
lot
is
located
at
DFW
Airport.
According
to
newspaper
accounts,
the
first
powered
airplane
was
flown
in
Texas
nearly
forty
years
before
the
Wright
Brothers
version
in
1903.
Inventor-pilot
Jacob
Brodbeck
powered
the
plane
with
coil
springs
and
reached
treetop
heights
before
crashing
into
a
henhouse
killing
several
chickens
and
scaring
many
children
in
1865.
There's
a
Texas
law
that
forbids
people
from
carrying
around
a
fence
cutter
or
a
pair
of
pliers
that
could
cut
a
fence.
Lubbock,
Texas
is
the
largest
city
in
the
United
States
that
is
dry.
The
Amarillo
airport
has
the
3rd
largest
runway
in
the
world
and
is
designated
as
an
alternate
landing
site
for
the
space
shuttle.
Three
existing
Indian
reservations
are
in
the
state:
the
Alabama-Coushatta
Reservation,
located
between
Livingston
and
Woodville
in
East
Texas;
Ysleta
del
Sur
Pueblo
(Tigua
Indian
Reservation)
near
El
Paso;
and
the
Kickapoo
Reservation
in
Maverick
County.
Most
Native
Americans
in
Texas
live
outside
reservations.
Texas'
Indian
population
ranks
sixth
among
the
states,
with
approximately
65,000.
Texas
has
approximately
11,500
historical
markers.
Marker
subjects
include
historic
courthouses,
frontier
forts,
Spanish
missions
and
presidios,
cemeteries,
churches,
individuals,
historic
homes
and
buildings
and
Texas
independence
battle
sites.
More
than
700
local
history
museums,
40,000
recorded
archeological
sites
and
more
than
2,000
sites
in
Texas
are
listed
in
the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places.
In
Texas,
it
is
illegal
to
curse
in
front
of
or
indecently
expose
a
corpse.
According
to
one
report,
more
popcorn
is
sold
in
Dallas,
Texas
than
anywhere
in
the
U.S.
(The
average
American
eats
42
quarts
of
popcorn
a
year.
Forty
percent
of
the
farm-grown
catfish
in
the
United
States
is
consumed
by
Texans.
It
is
illegal
to
spit
on
the
sidewalk
in
Texas.
To
be
elected
in
the
state
of
Texas,
one
must
believe
in
a
supreme
being.
Texas
is
as
large
as
all
of
New
England,
New
York,
Pennsylvania,
Ohio
and
Illinois
combined.
Supposedly,
there
is
a
ghost
on
the
fifth
floor
of
Austin's
Driskill
Hotel.
It
is
illegal
to
shoot
a
buffalo
from
the
second
story
of
a
hotel.
Texas
has
254
counties.
Rockwall
County
(147
square
miles)
is
the
smallest,
and
Brewster
County
(6,204
square
miles)
is
the
largest.
Only
one,
Angelina
County,
is
named
for
a
woman.
In
Texas,
pharmacists
can't
be
registered
members
of
the
Communist
Party.
Texas's
official
dance
is
the
square
dance.
The
all
American
meal,
the
hamburger,
was
created
in
Athens,
Texas.
Davy
Crockett
had
another
distinction
in
Texas,
besides
dying
at
the
Alamo.
He
also
served
three
terms
as
a
congressman
in
Tennessee.
Before
leaving
he
informed
his
peers,
"You'all
can
go
to
hell.
I
am
going
to
Texas."
It
is
illegal
to
milk
another
person's
cow.
Texas
was
an
independent
nation
from
1836
to
1845.
The
King
Ranch
in
Texas
is
bigger
than
the
state
of
Rhode
Island.
Texas
today
is
also
home
for
about
2.5
million
deer
and
200,000
alligators.
The
first
word
spoken
from
the
moon
on
July
20,
1969
was
"Houston".
The
world's
first
rodeo
was
held
in
Pecos
on
July
4,
1883.
The
Flagship
Hotel
on
Seawall
Boulevard
in
Galveston
is
the
only
hotel
in
North
America
built
entirely
over
the
water.
Lubbock
doesn't
have
any
storm
drains.
The
written
test
for
University
of
Texas
at
Austin
campus
police
in
the
1960s
asked
applicants
the
shape
of
their
excrement
to
test
their
ability
to
be
observant.
The
entire
Encyclopedia
Britannica
is
banned
in
Texas
because
it
contains
a
recipe
for
making
beer
that
can
be
used
at
home.
A
coastal
live
oak
located
near
Fulton
is
the
oldest
tree
in
the
state.
The
tree
has
an
estimated
age
of
more
than
1,500
years.
To
combat
the
deadly
killer
bee,
the
Harris
County
Fire
Department
has
11
trucks
equipped
with
soapy
water
sprayers
that
do
nothing
but
respond
to
killer
bee
calls.
Currently,
the
Austin
Fire
Department
will
only
deal
with
emergency
situations
involving
killer
bee
attacks
in
progress.
The
oldest
human
skeleton
ever
found
in
the
Western
Hemisphere
was
discovered
in
1953
near
Midland,
Texas
.
It
was
first
believed
that
the
skeleton,
the
remains
of
a
30-year-old
woman,
was
10,000
years
old.
However,
the
latest
estimates
are
that
it
is
much
older.
Billy
Bob’s
Texas,
in
Ft
Worth,
is
the
world’s
largest
country-western
honky-tonk
and
includes
a
4800-square
foot
rodeo
arena.
In
Lefors,
it
is
illegal
to
take
more
than
three
swallows
of
beer
at
any
time
while
standing.
When
Texas
was
annexed
in
1845
it
retained
the
right
to
fly
its
flag
at
the
same
height
as
the
national
flag.
The
last
battle
of
the
Civil
War
was
fought
on
May
12-13,
1865
at
Palmito
ranch,
Texas.
It
was
a
Confederate
victory.
The
official
dish
of
Texas
is
chili.
The
Dallas/Fort
Worth
airport
is
larger
than
New
York
City’s
Manhattan
Island.
In
Port
Arthur
obnoxious
odors
may
not
be
emitted
while
in
an
elevator.
It
is
illegal
for
children
to
have
unusual
haircuts
in
Mesquite,
Texas.
The
first
suspension
bridge
in
the
United
States
was
the
Waco
Bridge.
Built
in
1870
and
still
in
use
today
as
a
pedestrian
crossing
of
the
Brazos
River.
El
Paso
is
closer
to
Needles,
California
than
it
is
to
Dallas.
The
nation’s
longest,
skinniest
state
park
is
the
Texas
State
Railroad
Park
which
is
over
25
miles
long.
The
world’s
largest
collection
of
beer
bottles
can
be
seen
at
Wurstfest
in
New
Braunfels.
The
second
largest
rock
in
the
nation
is
Enchanted
Rock
which
has
an
exposed
surface
are
of
130
square
miles,
which
lies
on
the
border
between
Gillespie
and
Llano
Counties.
In
Texas,
it
is
still
a
"hanging
offense"
to
steal
cattle.
There
are
more
than
70,000
miles
of
highways
in
Texas.
You
can
be
legally
married
by
publicly
introducing
a
person
as
your
husband
or
wife
three
times.
Texas
has
a
total
of
6,300
square
miles
of
inland
lakes
and
streams,
second
only
to
Alaska.
Texas
has
four
national
forests
–
Angelina,
Davy
Crockett,
Sabine
and
Sam
Houston;
and
two
national
parks
–
Big
Bend
and
Guadalupe
Mountains.
There
were
more
than
70
World
War
II
prisoner-of-war
camps
in
Texas,
more
than
any
other
state.
Primarily
the
camps
housed
German
solders,
but
also
held
Italian
and
Japanese
prisoners.
Texas
has
90
mountains
a
mile
or
more
high,
with
Guadalupe
Peak
in
West
Texas
at
8,751
feet
being
the
tallest.
In
Texarkana
owners
of
horses
may
not
ride
them
at
night
without
taillights.
The
Buckhorn
Saloon
and
Museum
in
San
Antonio
trots
out
thousands
of
dead
animals
and
dead
animal
parts
for
your
enjoyment.
The
museum
features
a
4,000-antler
chandelier
and
a
chair
made
for
Teddy
Roosevelt
out
of
62
pair
of
buffalo
horns.
This
massive
assemblage
of
Texas-style
stuff
also
includes
a
dead
baby
giraffe,
a
bottle
cap
collection,
portraits
made
from
rattlesnake
rattlers
and
a
large
Indian
chief
silhouette
"drawn"
in
sheet
metal
with
a
.22
caliber
rifle.
The
entire
Encyclopedia
Britannica
is
banned
in
the
State
of
Texas
because
it
contains
a
formula
for
making
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