WHAT DO YOU KNOW

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WHAT DO YOU KNOW about these Texas facts? Sorry, no story this time but see how many of these Texas Brags you already know: All 15: You get the Texas Brag trophy, but you must have cheated. Seven: You’re on the way to becoming a Texan. Anything less than 5 is pathetic and I might tell you to go back where you came from but I need readers for my future essays. 1. Texas is the only state joining the U.S. by treaty. (It was first a sovereign nation.) 2. Six flags have flown over Texas (Spanish, French, Mexican, Republic of Texas, United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.) 3. Texas is the second largest land mass in the nation. (El Paso is closer to San Diego than to Houston and Dallas is closer to Memphis TN than to South Padre Island.) 4. In the list of the most populous cities in the United States, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas rank 4, 7, and 9. ( May have changed since this list was published.) 5. In wool production, Texas leads all other states. 6. Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco, Texas (late 1800). 7. Austin is known as the Live Music Capital of the World (If you have read all my Texas essays and can remember what you read, you’ll know this. 8. The Texas capitol dome is taller than the U.S. capitol dome. 9. San Jacinto monument commemorating the TX battle for Independence is taller than D.C.s Washington monumen 10. Texas has the 10th largest economy in the world. 11. Texas State Hwy. 30 from Georgetown to San Antonio was created to avoid the Austin metro traffic. 12. Austin is called Silicon Hills (with many tech companies.) 13. A site near Amarillo holds more than 40 percent of the helium used annually in the U.S. 14. The Texas state flower (Bluebonnet) is only one of 5000 species of Wildflowers in Texas. 15. The Dallas-Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York’s Manhattan Island. 16. There is a Texas law making it a crime to milk someone else’ cow. Maybe so, maybe NO? But if you believe everything you read online, you are an April Fool and I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Carole Sikes All this was found online.

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