Texas Facts: 38 Facts about Texas ←FACTSlides→

In 1989, an innocent man was punished with the death penalty in Texas because the jury confused him for another with the same name, looks and height.

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There is a species of fungus called "Chorioactis" that only exists in Texas and rural Japan, and is thought to have been in both places for 19 million years.

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There's a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.

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You are more likely to die as a drug dealer in Chicago than as a death row inmate in Texas.

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You're more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas than find in-person voter fraud.

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A city in Texas renamed itself to "DISH, Texas" in order to receive free Dish Satellite service for 10 years.

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California holds 12% of the U.S. population and produces 6.9% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions. Texas has 8.5% of the population and produces 12.8%.

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In Norway , "Texas" is slang for "crazy."

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People pay thousands of dollars to hunt Zebras and other African wildlife on large ranches in Texas.

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Oil production in Texas averaged 3 million barrels per day at its peak in 1972.

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Texas has 730 airports, second most of any state in the U.S.

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The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 in Texas was the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the U.S., killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people.

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The name Texas is based on the Caddo word

‘tejas' meaning "friends" or "allies."

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Texas has at least 200 ghost towns.

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Texas is the second-most populous state in the U.S.

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Texas has sued the federal government more than 40 times in this century.

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The constitutions of 7 U.S. states (Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas) specifically ban atheists from holding public office.

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Death row inmates in Texas don't get to pick their last meal.

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During Spanish colonial rule,
Texas was officially known as the

New Kingdom of the Philippines
Province of the Texas.

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It's illegal to own 6 or more dildos in Texas.

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