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MORE TEXAS FACTS!
1. Beaumont to
El Paso:
742 miles
2. Beaumont to Chicago: 770 miles
3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos, July 4, 1883.
5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel
in North America built over water.
6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William
Heisman who was the first full-time
coach at Rice
University in Houston.
7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than
any other area in North America.
8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the
winter home of
North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
10.
The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was
in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 8,000
lives were lost on Galveston Island
11. The first
word spoken from the moon, July 20,
1969, was ' Houston.'
12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island.
13. Tropical Storm Claudette
brought a U.S. rainfall
record of 43' in 24 hours in and around Alvin in
July of 1979.
14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by
TREATY, (known
as the Constitution of 1845 by the
Republic of Texas to enter the Union) instead of by
annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the
same height
as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.
15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be
500 years old.
16. Caddo Lake is the only natural
lake in the state.
17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is
no period in Dr Pepper.
18. Texas has had six capital cities:
Washington-on-the
Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston,
Velasco, West Columbia and Austin.
19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in
the U.S. which is taller than the Capitol Building
in Washington DC (by 7 feet).
20.
The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian
word 'tejas' meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas.
21. The State Mascot is the
Armadillo (an
interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is
they always have four babies. They have one egg,
which
splits into four, and they either have four
males or four females.).
22. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the
Astrodome in Houston.
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