You May Be a True Texan If You Know 29/35 of These Things!

'The King of the Wild Frontier' as he was known, Davy Crockett died fighting Mexican forces in Texas. Crockett was not only a frontiersman, but he also served in political positions as well including as a Tennessee member of the US House of Representatives.

American football is an institution in Texas with the Dallas Cowboys a much followed team. Even college games bring massive crowds and are sometimes played in professional stadiums.

The Lone Star state nickname comes from the fact that Texas was once a republic, struggling to gain freedom from Mexico. The star is found not only on the state seal but the flag as well.

Davy Crockett died fighting the troops of Mexican general Santa Anna at the Alamo mission in 1836. Legend has it that he was found dead in a room in the mission, surrounded by 15 corpses.

In 2014, Texas was producing 3.17 million barrels of oil... per day! That's incredible. It also makes Texas the leading source of oil in the United States.

Austin is certainly one of the greatest cities in the world when it comes to live music. In fact, 2016 figures show that music was responsible for an income of around $1.8 billion for the city.

Barack Obama is not a Texan. He was actually born in Hawaii. The others, however, are certainly famous sons of Texas and it would be hard to pick the most famous. Who would you choose?

Houston is home to the Johnson Space Center while NASA has their famed mission control that oversees all space missions. Every single space mission undertaken by NASA is controlled from the space center.

Although they were founded officially on October 17, 1835, the Texas Rangers roots go right back to 1823. They have state-wide jurisdiction.

John F. Kennedy was shot while travelling in an open-top vehicle through Dealey Plaza. He was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald using a high-powered rifle.

Claudette caused over 45 inches of rain to fall, 43 of those come in 24-hour period which remains a U.S. record today. That's over 1,100 mm of rain! Claudette caused around $400 million in damages, mostly as a result of rain as wind speeds recorded during the storm were not that high.

Yes, it is chili. The hotter the better. Even the little kids can eat the hottest chili and not feel the side effects. They breed them tough down in Texas.

Before Austin, a number of other towns had spent some time as the capital of the state. Austin was instituted as the capital in 1839.

Texans do love a good rodeo. Be it bull riding, steer roping, saddle bronc riding or bareback riding, all rodeo is popular in the Lone Star State.

The Rio Grande is over 3,000 kilometers long and starts in Colorado before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. It acts as a natural border between Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

The Astrodome has hosted basketball, baseball, motorsport, tennis, boxing, WWE and various concerts. The Astrodome was also a place of safety during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 although the storm was so severe, part of the roof started caving in.

Yes, over 6,000 people died in the Galveston Hurricane. Most were from a storm surge which swamped the area around Galveston. Over 3,000 houses were destroyed and 30,000 people left homeless.

Although Texans seem to have a love/hate relationship with the burrowing armadillo, it is their state animal. Armadillos are distant cousins to sloths and the only mammal to have a protective outer shell. Armor, if you will.

There are some weird laws in other states in the United States, but the fact that all of these are still valid in Texas certainly takes the cake for strangest laws ever! Still, not sure who would have sold their eye for such a law to even exist.

Yes, it is true. Texas is massive, certainly bigger than any European country.

The time frame for all of these above ruling Texas is as follows: Spain (1519-1685 and 1690-1821), France (1685 to 1690), Mexico (1821-1836), Republic of Texas (1836-1845), Confederate States (1861-1865), and the United States (1865-present day).

Incredibly, it does. Texas relies on the power it generates itself. Always bigger and better, hey!

The fact that Alaska is the only state to beat Texas in terms of size shows you how big Texas really is as we all know that Alaska is massive! Overall, Texas is 268,581 square miles in size! It is 773 miles wide at its widest point and 790 miles long at its longest point.

Established in 1853, King ranch is bigger than Rhode Island and believed to be the home of ranching. The ranch was founded by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis. In 1961, it was named a national historic landmark of the United States.

'Texas, our Texas' composed by William J. Marsh was written in 1924. Interestingly, Marsh was originally from Liverpool, England. It was selected as the state song in 1929.

In 2016, over 2.3 million people lived in Houston. This is a million more than Dallas (1.3 million) and much higher than Austin (over 900,000).

The Hasinai people lived in the Texas region when the Spanish arrived in the 1500's. They numbered over 250,000 but Western diseases to which they had no immunity, wiped them out over time.

A soldier and politician, Sam Houston led troops at the Battle of San Jacinto. Victory here paved the way for Texan independence.

After they were killed in a shootout with police, the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde are buried in Dallas. Both were born in Texas.

The brainchild of Charles Alderton, Dr. Pepper was first invented in 1885 in Waco. Interestingly, Alderton was a pharmacist, and the drink was at first called "Waco." Much like Coca-Cola, it has a secret recipe.

Unbelievably, Texas has a tornado around 132 times each year or once every three days. That's a little scary don't you think? It doesn't seem to worry Texans, however.

Thanks to the fact that NASA's mission control is based at the Johnson Space Centre found near the city, Houston is known as 'Space City.' And the city has been immortalized in all good space stories. Think of "Houston" the first words said from the surface of the moon or "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here" from the Apollo 13 mission.

Yes, Earth, Texas. Population 1,109. It is found in Lamb County, West Texas and was established in 1924, but originally called Fairlawn. That changed the following year.

Yes, Austin was founded as Waterloo on the banks of the Colorado river. People settled in the area from 1837 and in 1839, the name changed to Austin and the city became the capital of Texas.

The state motto of Texas is friendship. Many people think it is 'Don't Mess With Texas' but that was the motto of a very successful anti-litter advertising campaign in the 1980s.