Texas Facts and Trivia

Texas Facts & Trivia

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Davy Crockett

"You'all can go to hell. I am going to Texas."

-- Davy Crockett after serving three terms as a Tennessee congressman.

Texas's official dance is the square dance.

The all American meal, the hamburger, was created in Athens, Texas.

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."

It is illegal to milk another person's cow.

General Sam Houston carried two books with him throughout his campaign for Texas liberty, "Gulliver's Travels" and "Caesar's War Commentaries".

Six flags have flown over Texas Texas is the only state to have the flags of six different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States and the United States.

In 1921 a hurricane deposited twenty-three inches of rain on Texas in one day.

Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845.

The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

Of the nation's ten largest cities, three are in Texas (Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio).

Texas today is also home for about 2.5 million deer and 200,000 alligators.

The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was "Houston".

The world's first rodeo was held in Pecos on July 4, 1883.

The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built entirely over the water.

In the South Texas Brush Country, the ghost of a Headless Horseman, referred to as El Muerto, is said to continue to roam.

Lubbock doesn't have any storm drains.

The written test for University of Texas at Austin campus police in the 1960s asked applicants the shape of their excrement to test their ability to be observant.

The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making beer that can be used at home.

A coastal live oak located near Fulton is the oldest tree in the state. The tree has an estimated age of more than 1,500 years.

Texas State representative, Jim Kaster, introduced a bill that all criminals must notify their victims in advance of their crimes and remind them that use of deadly force is authorized.

To combat the deadly killer bee, the Harris County Fire Department has 11 trucks equipped with soapy water sprayers that do nothing but respond to killer bee calls. Currently, the Austin Fire Department will only deal with emergency situations involving killer bee attacks in progress.

The oldest human skeleton ever found in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 1953 near Midland, Texas . It was first believed that the skeleton, the remains of a 30-year-old woman, was 10,000 years old. However, the latest estimates are that it is much older.

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