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Texas is as large as all of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland combined.

The 1850 census recorded 213,000 people in Texas. In 1900, there were three million people, and by 1990, the population was more than 16 million. Today, approximately 18 million people live in Texas, only slightly outnumber the 16 million cattle that exist there.

The Battle of the Alamo, lasting nearly two weeks, ended on March 6, 1836, with the deaths of all its defenders – about 190. The Mexican army numbered 4,000-5,000 during its final charge.

Davy Crockett had another distinction in Texas, besides dying at the Alamo. He also served three terms as a congressman in Tennessee. Before leaving he informed his peers, You'all can go to hell. I am going to Texas.

El Paso, Texas is one of the safest big cities in America, despite being across the river from Juarez, Mexico one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

Texas is home to the most white-tailed deer of any U.S. state or Canadian province, with an estimated population of over four million.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas. He was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1960. He was also the last president to have been born in the 19th century.

Houston airport received many complaints about baggage wait times. In response, they moved baggage claim further away so that the walk was longer than the wait. The number of complaints dropped.

If Texas were it's own country, it would have the 13th highest GDP in the world. Texas gross domestic product is $1.43 trillion.

There is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas by descendants of German immigrants who settled in Texas the in the mid-19th century.

The founder of Oscar Academy Awards “Oscar Pierce,” was born in Texas.

Texas produces more wool than any other state in the U.S. Also Texas leads the nation in cattle, cotton, hay, sheep, goats and mohair production. 16 million cattle are estimated to exist in Texas.

Rodeo is the official state sport of Texas, though High School Football is more popular.

King Ranch is one of the largest ranches in the world. It’s bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island. King Ranch was founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis with it’s 825,000 acres.

You can find more species of bats in Texas than anywhere else in the world.

Down the Austin Congress Avenue Bridge almost 1.5 million bats live and they normally eat around 20,000 pounds of insects every night.

Houston is the first word ever said on the moon.

Amarillo, Texas has the world’s largest helium well and 90% of total helium in U.S.

In Texas, it is still a hanging offense to steal cattle.

Jesse James refused to rob a bank in McKinney, Texas because he liked the chili served there.

Texas has 90 mountains which are a mile or more high, with Guadalupe Peak in West Texas at 8,751 feet being the tallest.

Texas no longer offers a special “last meal” to condemned inmates. Instead, such inmates are offered the same meal as the rest of the prison.

Texas’ largest wind farm is about 4.5 times the size of Manhattan. Texas is considered to be the leader in wind energy — The Roscoe Wind Farm has a 781-megawatt capacity and it can power 230,000 homes.

The Big Texan Steak Ranch Restaurant in Amarillo serves a 4½ pound steak for free, if you can eat it in an hour.

The fastest road in USA is in Austin, Texas. It has a speed limit of 85 mph.

The official dish of Texas is chili.

There are enough registered machine guns in Texas to arm every undergraduate enrolled at UCLA.

A time capsule was buried in Amarillo, Texas in 1968 that contains a passbook to a bank account that had $10 deposited in it. By 2968 it is expected to have reached $1 quadrillion in value.