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Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .
1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742miles

2. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles

3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas

4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos , July 4, 1883.
5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America
built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike - 2008!
6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first
full-time coach at Rice University in Houston .
7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North
America .
8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only
remaining flock of whooping cranes.
9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
10. 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 .
11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was " Houston ," but
the Space Center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.
12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island .
13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43" in 24
hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979.
14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the
Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union )
instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same
height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.
15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr
Pepper.
18. Texas has had six capital cities:
Washington-on-the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston , Velasco, West Columbia
and Austin .
19. 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).
20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the
world and it is taller than the Washington Monument .
21. The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning
friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas .
22. 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.
23. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston .
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Happy Hook'n
Coach


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Interesting facts. But allow me to clear up the issue about Caddo Lake.
This is according to my esteemed collegue at the Houston Chronicle:
Caddo Lake's history is the stuff of legend
Reservoir holds diverse native life, abundant lore
By SHANNON TOMPKINS Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Caddo Lake is not the only natural lake in Texas. The state holds dozens of natural lakes, some covering hundreds of acres, scattered from the playas of the Panhandle to the oxbows in East Texas river bottoms and the resacas of South Texas. Heck, Eagle Lake on the prairie west of Houston is a natural lake.
And, truth is, Caddo's not even a “natural” lake — at least not in it's current incarnation.
Caddo Lake was a natural lake, though.
Natural beginning
For at least a couple of thousand years, the area now covered by Caddo Lake was a low-lying reach of swamp and small natural lakes veined by Big Cypress Creek and other waterways.
Geologists and hydrologists are not certain about the exact timing, but sometime in the past thousand years — some say as long ago as 1100 AD, but most say 200-400 years ago — something happened to cause water to flood the low-lying basin and form Caddo Lake.
The generally accepted theory is that a massive log jam on the Red River (into which Big Cypress Creek flows) created a natural dam that caused water to back up behind it and flood the low-lying area on what's now the Texas/Louisiana border.