Houston Facts

The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!

Since 2005, the Honor Flight Network has flown over 300,000 veterans to Washington for free, to see the memorials built for them. About 22,000 fly every year through 130-plus hubs, with nearly 40,000 still waiting. Every flight still lands to strangers at the gate, clapping and waving flags. Houston's Hobby Airport welcomes its next flight home September 19, 2026. Anyone can stand in that crowd.

Patrick Stewart stepped off the stage at the 2013 Comicpalooza in Houston and held a fan who said she had survived abuse. He had just told the room he supports the charity Refuge in his mother's name, because he couldn't help her when his father abused her. "You never have to go through that again, you're safe now," he told her. Stewart died on Wednesday at 86. The charity he named still shelters survivors.