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- Texas is the only state to have had the flags of 6 different
nations fly over it. They are:
Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States
and the United States.
- The King Ranch in south central Texas
is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
- Texas is the only
state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial
annexation.
- When Texas joined the Union in 1845 it retained
the right to fly its flag at the same height as the
national flag.
- Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885.
- The first suspension
bridge in the U.S. was the Waco Bridge, built in 1870 and still
in use today as a
pedestrian crossing of the Brazos River.
- The worst natural disaster
in the U.S. was caused by a hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900.
Over `
8000 deaths were recorded.
- Texas covers 7.4% of the nation's
total area.
- More land is farmed in Texas than any other state.
- Laredo
is the world's largest inland port.
- Amarillo has the world's
largest helium well.
- The world's first rodeo was held in Pecos
on July 4, 1883.
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