• The Oscar, an award given by the American Academy of Arts, was named after Oscar Pierce, whose niece worked for the organization. When she first saw this figurine, they say she exclaimed: “Oh, God, he looks so much like my Uncle Oscar!”
• Dallas Fort Worth International Airport has the largest parking lot in the world. Amarillo International Airport has the world's third-longest runway and serves as an alternate landing site for the space shuttle. Texas has more airports than any other state in the country.
• Texas is the second largest state in the United States, second only to Alaska. Texas is larger than many states, including any country in Europe. If Texas were a country, it would rank fortieth in the world, just behind Chile and Zambia.
• Texas has the second largest population in the United States after California. New York State is in third place. As of the 2010 census, the population of Texas was 25,145,561, down from a much smaller 1990 population of 16,968,510. The population density in 2010 was 96.3 people per square mile.
• The name “Texas” comes from the Hasinai Indian word “Tejas,” which means “allies” or “friends.” In fact, the state motto is “friendship.” Ironically, the Indian tribes inhabiting Texas, including the Hasinai, were completely exterminated.
• Public lands here are the sole property of the state, and if the federal government wants to establish a park or construct any structure in Texas, it will have to ask the state for permission.
• Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest population center in the United States.
• Like any US state, Texas has a nickname - it is informally called the "Lone Star State" as a reminder of its struggle for independence from Mexico and its attempt to declare itself an independent republic from the United States.
• The phrase “Six Flags Over Texas” means that at different times the territory of this state was under the jurisdiction of six countries. The first flag to fly in Texas belonged to Spain (1519-1821), the second was the royal banner of France (1685-1690), the third flag was hoisted over the state by Mexico (1821-1836), the fourth belonged to the Republic of Texas (1836-1845), the fifth was US flag (1845-1861 and 1865-present, and during secession (the secession of 11 southern states from the US) Texas had the flag of the Confederate States of America, which existed from 1861 to 1865.
• If Texas were a country, it would have taken The country ranks seventh in the world in greenhouse gas emissions, and in the United States itself, Texas is the undisputed champion.
• Texas experiences most of the tornadoes that occur in the United States. On average, 139 of these atmospheric vortices occur here per year. Tornadoes most often occur in northern Texas and the “handle of the frying pan,” as the state of West Virginia is jokingly called here.
• The most destructive natural disaster in Texas was the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which, according to various sources, killed between eight and twelve thousand people.
• Sam Houston (1793-1863) was the first president and first governor of Texas. The Cherokee Indians with whom he lived in Tennessee called him "Raven." The most famous Texan, he was actually born in Virginia and served as governor of Tennessee. The statue erected in honor of Sam Houston is called "The Retribution of Courage" by Americans and is the largest statue of an American in the world.
• Texas was an independent state from 1836 to 1845. When the state was annexed in 1845, it reserved the right to fly its own flag at the same height as the US state flag.
• The famous war cry “Remember the Alamo!” often attributed to Sam Houston, but actually belonged to Texas General Sidney Sherman (1805-1873).
• The Texas flag is called the “Lone Star Flag” and has three colors: red representing courage, white representing freedom, and blue representing loyalty.
• Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) is considered the “Father” of Texas. He and his father helped three hundred American families move to Texas.
• Approximately 90% of the world's recoverable helium reserves lie beneath Amarillo, Texas.
• Austin is home to the largest bat colony in North America. More than 1.5 million of these animals live under the bridge over Lady Bird Lake and eat from 5 to 15 thousand kilograms of insects per night.
• It is believed that $60 million in gold stolen by the Coronado outlaw is buried in a pasture near the town of Clyde, Texas.
• In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first US president born in Texas.
• The television drama, filmed on a ranch in Frisco near Dallas, ran from 1978 to 1991, was dubbed into 67 languages and broadcast in more than 90 countries.
• In 2010, Texas tied with Mississippi for the largest percentage of workers earning the lowest wages in the United States. In 2011, it had the fourth-highest poverty rate of any state in the United States, and it ranks first for graduates.
• Jane Long (1798-1880) was called the "Mother of Texas" for her courage and for allegedly giving birth to the first white child in the state. Although, by her own admission, she was not the first English woman to give birth to a child in Texas.
• Miriam Ferguson was the first female governor of Texas and the first woman elected governor of an American state.
• Emily Morgan, the first African American woman to work as an indentured servant, was the subject of the song "Yellow Rose of Texas."