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by Rohit Patel, Jun 29, 2008 |
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These extremely interesting facts will guarantee any report on Texas an A+. |
- The privately owned King Ranch in south Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
- Texas's native horny toad is actually a lizard and can shoot blood from its eyes
- Bracken Cave, near San Antonio, is home to about 20 million bats
- Corn has been grown in Texas for at least two thousand years
- Texas has 15 kinds of rattlesnakes
- Ima Hogg was the real name of a Texas governor's daughter
- Texans fought a battle after the end of the Civil War because they hadn't heard the war was over
- The town of Sweetwater holds the annual World's Largest Rattlesnake Round-up. Events include snake charming, snake weigh-ins, and eating fried rattlesnake meat!
- Many Texas roads or highways have the initials FM before the number (e.g., FM 1960). It's not a radio station; it means Farm-to-Market road.
- More than five thousand wildflower species grow in Texas
- Texas has only one natural lake
- Texas has had seven different capitals
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