Texas is a state in the South Central region of the United States. It is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population.
- Texas declared its independence from Mexico in 1836 and became a Republicuntil it joined the U.S. in 1845.
- Killing someone to prevent the theft of property is legal in Texas.
- If Texas were a nation, it would be the world's 7th largest oil producer.
- Earth, Texas is the only place on Earth named "Earth."
- Over 20 million bats live in the Bracken Cave in Texas, the world's largest colony of bats.
- One of the widest freeways in the world is the Katy Freeway, part of the Interstate 10 in Texas, with up to 26 lanes across.
- Texas has its own pledge of allegiance.
- In 1917, Germany invited Mexicoto join WW1 by attacking the U.S. in order to recover the lost territoriesof Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
- Sam Houston, the general who won Texas independence from Mexico, was removed from his post as Governor after refusing to support the Confederacy on the Civil War.
- In Texas, it is legal to kill BigFoot if you ever find it.
- 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.
- 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.
- There's a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.
- You are more likely to die as a drug dealer in Chicago than as a death row inmate in Texas.
- You're more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas than find in person voter fraud.
- A city in Texas renamed itself to "DISH, Texas" in order to receive free Dish Satellite service for 10 years.
- 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%.