Wacky Texas Facts

Published by Rohit Patel in Random
June 29, 2008

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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