55 interesting facts about Texas you should know - The Fact File (2023)

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1. before liquidationof the Europeans in Texas, the land was home to the Texas Indians (Native American tribes).^[12]

2.Sam Houston was the first president of the Republic of Texas.The Sam Houston statue is the largest statue in the United States modeled after a real person.It is 67 feet tall. It was erected in 1994 with 30 tons of concrete and steel. The locals call the statue "Big Sam," but its official name is "A Tribute to Courage."Did you know that Sam Houston was born in¿Virginia?^[sixteen]

3.The State Fair of Texas isthe largest in the United StatesIt is estimated that almost 3.5 million people visited the fair in 2015.^[17]

4.Lee Harvey Oswald,the murderer ofjohn f kennedy(es 35president two united states, shot to death on November 22, 1963) was arrested at the Texas Theater in Dallas, Texas.^[18]

5.Texas State Capitol BuildingIt is taller than the nation's capitol building (the US Capitol in Washington) at almost 15 feetand is the sixth highest state capital.^[19]

6.texas hasthe second highest number of professional sports teams.The only state that surpasses Texas in this regard isCalifornia.^[24]

7.ohigher national speed limitis observed in Texas in a section between San Antonio and Austin inTexasState Highway 130. Here you are allowed to drive up to 85 miles per hour.^[20]

8.A Texas couple claimed theGuinness world recordthe world's oldest married couple with a combined age of 211.

9.Texas (695,662 km²) has approximatelytwice the sizeofGermany(357.376km²). miTexas is bigger than any country in Western Europe.^[12]

10Haymore than 1.5 million undocumented immigrantswithout Texas.^[11]

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11The balloon stent used to open blocked vessels during coronary surgery was invented by Julio Palmaz at the University of Texas Health Science Center. The stent patent was granted in 1985 and was recognized in Intellectual Property International Magazine as one of the“Ten patents that changed the world”.^[25]

12The Pepper Snapple Group is the oldest soft drink manufacturer in the United States. Soda was invented by Charles Alderton in 1885.Doctor Pepper is one of the top ten soft drinks in the United States.Coca-Cola was introduced to the market in 1886.^[10]

13 In 1827, Seven-Eleven opened its first chain in Dallas, Texas.It is a Japanese-American international chain of convenience stores, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is also the first convenience store in the United States.Tote'm Storesuntil it was renamed in 1946. As of June 2019, 7-Eleven operates, franchises, and licenses 68,236 stores in 17 countries.^[9]

14 frozen margarita machineeramade upnot Texas by Mariano Martinez I 1971.^[8]

15.Two physicians, namely Frank Gerow and Thomas Cronin, are credited withthe invention of breast implants.In 1962, the first of these implants was done in Texas.Timmie Jean Lindsay.

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sixteen.Highland Park Village in Texas ESthe first planned mall in the USIt was built in 1931.^[7]

17texas is thesecondmost populous (afterCalifornia) and the second largest state (by area) in the US, afterAlaska.^[1]

18texas is thelargest of the 48 contiguous statesof the US, and the second largest overall, behind Alaska.^[3]

19Tto the Texas nameIt comes from the word taysha, which means “friends” in the Caddo (Native American) language.^[1]

20 Less than 10%of the land area of ​​Texas is desert.^[1]

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21TexasFormerlywas ruled by various nations, includingspain,France, miMexico.^[1]

22The deadliest natural disaster in United States history occurred in Texas. The Great Galveston Storm of 1900, by some official estimates, killed 8,000 people.^[29]

23BeforeWWII: cattle and bison, cotton, timber and oil werethe four industries that shaped the state's economyeconomy.^[1]

24this is alsoa hotspot for the second largest group of Fortune 500 companiesin USA

25The Rio Grande isthe biggest riverwithout Texas.^[1]

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26rocksas old as 1.6 billion yearsThey were recognized in Texas.^[1]

27texas hasthe largest state capitol building in the US (51.4 acres)^[2]

28the famous phrase"Don't Mess With Texas"it was coined by an ad agency tasked with helping the state with its anti-litter campaign. In the 1980s, Texas spent $20 million a year cleaning up trash along its highways. The catchphrase caught on and has been an unofficial Texas pride catchphrase ever since.^[2]

29Austin, Texas is named for Stephen Austin, who established the state's first American colony.Texas is named after the Indian word“Tejas” means “friends” or “allies”.^[3]

30state nicknameThe Lone Star State"it comes from the fact that it was once an independent country with its own single-star flag. The Lone Star Flag adopted by the Republic of Texas in 1839 became the flag of the Lone Star State when Texas became part of the United States in 1845.^[3]

31texas is themain producer ofoil, natural gas and sulfur in the country.^[3]

32.two ofthe presidents of the united statesWe areborn in Texas.Lyndon Johnson y Dwight Eisenhower.^[3]

33.Texas is 790 miles long and 660 miles wide at its farthest points.

34.Texas is generally divided into east and west. The eastern part of the state isknown for cottonwhile the western part of the state is characterized bywon.^[4]

35.the astrodomeIt is the first multifunctional in the world,domedsportsstadium, located in Houston, Texas. It was inaugurated on April 9, 1965.^[13]

36.The Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda wasthe first European to visit Texasin 1915.^[27]

37.Between 1836 and 1845, Texas was an independent nation. Is heonly state to enter the United States by treatyinstead of territorial annexation.^[5]

38. six Flagsflew over Texas (Spanish, French, Mexican, Republic of Texas, Confederate and American).^[5]

39. George W. Bush,former President of the United States of America (between 2001 and 2009), was Governor of Texas for two terms (he was the 46thgovernor of texasfrom 1995 to 2000). He was also the first Texas governor to be elected to two consecutive terms since Dolph Briscoe was re-elected in 1974.^[26,43]

40Texashas more bird species than any other state,which includes owls and hummingbirds.^[6]

41.Texashas more cattle than any other statenot country.^[23]

42.Texas also hasone of the largest wind farms in the world. TexasIt has its own electrical network. there are threebleachers notinferior 48States: the East Interconnection, the West Interconnection - andTexas. The power grid in the state was established during World War II so that factories producing essential war supplies remain self-sufficient.^[6,28]

43.Home to an estimated 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats, the Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin ishome to one of the largest urban bat colonies in North America.Every night from mid-March to November, bats come out from under the bridge at dusk to cover the sky as they forage for food.^[15]

44.there wasalmost 297,000 oil wells in Texasas of February 2018.^[14]

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