14 Amazing Facts About Texas #1
Lot of awesome videos here for you are you ready let’s go number one the bowie knife is named after the Alamo hero Jim Bowie his brother resin designed the hefty weapon number two it is still a hanging offense in Texas is still cattle or to put graffiti on someone else’s cow
It is also illegal to indecently expose our swear in front of a corpse in Texas in Galveston Texas it is illegal to have a camel run loose on the beach – no there’s camels in Texas number three Oscar the Academy Award statue was named for the Texan Oscar Pierce who’s nice
Work in Hollywood for Academy Motion Pictures Arts and Science when she saw the gold statue she reporters said why that looks like my uncle Oscar number four the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is home to the world’s largest parking lot the Rick husband Amarillo International Airport has the third
Largest runway in the world and his alternate landing site for the Space Shuttle Texas has more airports than any other state in the country number five at 260 8601 square miles Texas is the largest state in the continuous United States and is the second biggest state
In the USA only Alaska is bigger Texas is larger than many nations of the world including every country in Europe if it were a country it would be the 40th largest country in the world after Chile in Zambia number six maverick was also the grandfather of Texas politician
Murray maverick who coined the term goober Lee number seven the term maverick is derived from the name Samuel a maverick a early Texas lawyer in pioneer number a Texas is the second most populous state in the u.s. after California New York is the third most populous in 2010 u.s. census
Reported that the population of Texas has 25 million one hundred forty five thousand five hundred and sixty-one people in 1990 it was sixt-shirts/” target=”_blank”>teen million nine hundred eighty six thousand five hundred and ten the population density in 2010 was ninety six point three people per square mile number nine the word Texas was the
Spanish pronunciation of Tejas of the hassan i indian word meaning allies or friends in fact the texas state motto is friendship ironically many Native American tribes in Texas including the Hassan I were totally destroyed number ten Texas still owns all of its public lands if the federal government
Wants to create a park or cut a stand of timber it must first ask the state’s permission number eleven the city of slaughter Texas has never add a homicide number twelve the largest city in Texas is Houston it is also the fourth largest city in the United States number thirt-shirts/” target=”_blank”>teen
Texas nickname is also Lone Star State as a reminder of its struggle for independence from Mexico and to represent Texas as an independent republic number fourt-shirts/” target=”_blank”>teen it is said that only Texans would have fought the Battle of the Alamo where Mexican troops far outnumber the 187 men in the mission
Turned out fort all 187 men died well here you go here’s a first part a three-part series of backs about Texas make sure you subscribe to our Channel because you don’t want to miss these awesome facts about Texas you have an
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In Bowie county Texas it's pronounced Boo-wee. Unfortunately he's not around to correct us. And one of his knives was very probably made (perfected) by James Black in Washington, Arkansas.
2:26 what's with the white population map? Doesn't relate to what you're saying.
3:32 I know it is hard to understand him here but he said 4th