King Ranch is bigger than the State of Rhode Island
Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation
El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.
The Heisman trophy is named for John William Heisman the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston.
With more than 267,000 square miles, Texas is as large as all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois combined.
The largest military base in the world, Fort Hood, is located in Killeen, in central Texas
Texas has more churches than any state in the union, with 16,969
Texas ranks number one in the United States in production of oil, natural gas, cattle, sheep, wool, rice, watermelon, and cotton
The hamburger was invented in Athens, Texas
The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston"
The area around Abilene TX is so rich with oil that when the city put up a demonstration oil-drilling rig on the county fairgrounds, just to illustrate the techniques of "making a hole," it struck oil
Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by treaty, instead of annexation. It was a sovereign nation and is the only state under the flag code that can fly the state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
Texas is the largest petroleum producing state in the US. If Texas was an independent nation, it would rank as the world*s fifth largest petroleum producing country.
Texas has the nation*s largest State Capitol building. The dome of the Capitol stands seven feet higher than that of the nation*s Capitol.
The Texas Medical Center in Houston is the world's largest medical complex.
"Never ask a man where he's from! If he's from Texas, you won't have to ask, he'll tell you! And if he isn't from Texas, you shouldn't embarrass him by calling attention to it!"
Hell, I've lived here 25 years and I didn't know that.