Random Texas Facts For All

> This is a must read for all Texans, used-to-be Texans,
> adopted Texans or
> wanna-be Texans,
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> JUST TEXAS
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> Pep, Texas 79353
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> Smiley , Texas 78159
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> Paradise , Texas 76073
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> Rainbow , Texas 76077
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> Sweet Home , Texas 77987
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> Comfort , Texas 78013
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> Friendship, Texas 76530
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> Love the Sun?
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> Sun City , Texas 78628
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> Sunrise , Texas 76661
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> Sunset, Texas 76270
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> Sundown, Texas 79372
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> Sunray , Texas 79086
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> Sunny Side , Texas 77423
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> Want something to eat?
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> Bacon , Texas 76301
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> Noodle , Texas 79536
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> Oatmeal , Texas 78605
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> Turkey , Texas 79261
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> Trout , Texas 75789
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> Sugar Land , Texas 77479
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> Salty, Texas 76567
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> Rice , Texas 75155
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> Pearland , Texas 77581
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> Orange , Texas 77630
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> And top it off with:
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> Sweetwater , Texas 79556
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> Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!
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> Detroit , Texas 75436
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> Cleveland , Texas 75436
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> Colorado City , Texas 79512
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> Denver City , Texas 79323
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> Klondike , Texas 75448
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> Nevada , Texas 75173
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> Memphis , Texas 79245
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> Miami , Texas 79059
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> Boston , Texas 75570
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> Santa Fe , Texas 77517
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> Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861
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> Reno , Texas 75462
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> Pasadena , Texas 77506
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> Columbus , Texas 78934
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> Feel like traveling outside the
> country?
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> Athens , Texas 75751
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> Canadian, Texas 79014
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> China , Texas 77613
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> Egypt , Texas 77436
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> Ireland , Texas 76538
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> Italy , Texas 76538
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> Turkey , Texas 79261
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> London , Texas 76854
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> New London , Texas 75682
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> Paris , Texas 75460
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> Palestine , Texas 75801
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> No need to travel to Washington D.C.
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> Whitehouse , Texas 75791
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> We even have a city named after our planet!
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> Earth , Texas 79031
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> We have a city named after our
> state
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> Texas City , Texas 77590
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> Exhausted?
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> Energy , Texas 76452
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> Cold?
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> Blanket , Texas 76432
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> Winters, Texas
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> Like to read about History?
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> Santa Anna , Texas
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> Goliad , Texas
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> Alamo , Texas
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> Gun Barrel City , Texas
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> Robert Lee , Texas
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> Need Office Supplies?
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> Staples, Texas 78670
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> Want to go into outer space?
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> Venus , Texas 76084
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> Mars , Texas 79062
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> You guessed it. It's on the state line.
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> Texline , Texas 79087
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> For the kids...
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> Kermit , Texas 79745
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> Elmo , Texas 75118
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> Nemo , Texas 76070
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> Tarzan , Texas 79783
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> Winnie , Texas 77665
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> Sylvester , Texas 79560
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> Other city names in Texas , to make you smile......
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> Frognot , Texas 75424
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> Bigfoot , Texas 78005
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> Hogeye , Texas 75423
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> Cactus , Texas 79013
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> Notrees , Texas 79759
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> Best, Texas 76932
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> Veribest , Texas 76886
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> Kickapoo , Texas 75763
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> Dime Box , Texas 77853
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> Old Dime Box , Texas 77853
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> Telephone , Texas 75488
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> Telegraph , Texas 76883
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> Whiteface , Texas 79379
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> Twitty, Texas 79079
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> And last but not least, the Anti-Al Gore City
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> Kilgore , Texas 75662
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> And our favorites...
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> Cut n Shoot, Texas
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> Gun Barrell City , Texas
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> Hoop And Holler, Texas
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> Ding Dong, Texas and, of course,
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> Muleshoe , Texas
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> Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about
> folks from Texas
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> If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance
> and they don't work
> there, you may live in Texas ;
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> If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
> you may live in Texas ;
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> If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with
> someone who dialed a
> wrong number, you may live in Texas ;
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> If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of
> Dallas for the weekend, you may
> live in Texas ;
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> If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas
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> If you know several people who have hit a deer more
> than once, you may live
> in Texas ;
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> If
> you install security lights on your house and garage,
> but leave both
> unlocked, you may live in Texas ;
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> If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife
> knows how to use them,
> you may live in Texas
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> If you find 60 degrees 'a little chilly,' you
> may live in Texas ;
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> If you actually understand these jokes, and share them
> with all your Texas
> friends, you definitely live in Texas ..
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> Here are some little known, very interesting facts
> about Texas .
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> 1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles
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> 2.. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles
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> 3... El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
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> 4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos , July 4, 1883.
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> 5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in
> North America built
> over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike -2008!
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> 6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William
> Heisman who was the
> first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston .
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> 7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any
> other area in North
> America
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> 8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North
> America 's only
> remaining flock of whooping cranes.
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> 9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
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> 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 .
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> 11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20,1969,
> was " Houston
> ," but the space center was actually in Clear Lake
> City at the time.
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> 12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode
> Island ..
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> 13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall
> record of 43' in 24
> hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979...
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> 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. Texas may divide into 5 states.
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> 15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500
> years old.
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> 16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
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> 17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no
> period in Dr
> Pepper..
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> 18. Texas has had six capital cities:
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> Washington -on- the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston
> ,Velasco, West Columbia
> and Austin ...
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> 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).
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> 20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free
> standing monument in the
> world and it is taller than the Washington monument.
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> 21. The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini
> Indian word 'tejas' meaning
> friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas ..
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> 22. 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.).
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> 23. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the
> Astrodome in Houston .
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> Cowboy's Ten
> Commandments posted on
> the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas :
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> (1) Just one God.
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> (2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
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> (3) No telling tales or gossipin'.
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> (4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
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> (5) Put nothin' before God.
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> (6) No foolin' around with another fellow's
> gal.
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> (7) No killin'.
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> (8) Watch yer mouth.
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> (9) Don't take what ain't yers.
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> (10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's
> stuff.
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> Y'all git all that?
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> If God Brings you to
> it,
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> He will bring you through it