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> Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles
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> Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles
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> El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
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> World's first rodeo was in Pecos, July 4, 1883.
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> The Flagship Hotel in Galveston was the only hotel in North America built over water.
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> The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston
> .
> Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America .
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>  Arans Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North Americas only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
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> Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
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> The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives were lost
> on Galveston Island .
> The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was " Houston .."
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> King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island .
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> Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979.
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> A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
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> Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
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> Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper.
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> Texas has had six capital cities: Washington-on- the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston , Velasco, West Columbia         and Austin.
> .
> The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S. which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington DC
> (by 7 feet).
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> The name " Texas " comes from the Hasini Indian word "tejas" meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas .
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> The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies.
> They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.).
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> The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston.
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