Texas Facts

In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.

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

The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.

Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.

In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.

In 1997, a 23-year-old French con artist convinced a Texas family he was their missing teenage son — despite having brown eyes instead of blue, a heavy French accent, and being a completely different person. He lived with them for months before a private investigator uncovered the truth.