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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Texas

Every fact's bigger in Texas, after all. But there's even more there to discover for yourself!

1. Palo Duro Canyon in the panhandle is America's second-largest canyon.

2. All 14 beautiful acres of the nation's biggest rose garden are in Tyler, TX.

3. The King Ranch outside of Corpus Christi is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.

4. And speaking of things bigger than Rhode Island, Big Bend National Park is one of only 12 parks in the world certified as a Gold-tier International Dark-Sky Park.

5. The Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, also near Corpus Christi, is the winter home of the only remaining population of wild whooping cranes.

6. More tigers live in Texas than their native India, and one of the best places to see them is the International Exotic Animal Sanctuary outside of Fort Worth.

7. The Neutral Buoyancy Lab is the world's largest indoor body of water — which you can tour while real, live astronauts train at Space Center Houston.

8. The largest single-story public library in America used to be an abandoned Walmart in McAllen.

9. San Antonio's 109-year-old Fairmount Hotel holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest hotel relocation — when it was mounted up on dollies and wheeled five blocks down the street over six days.

10. Austin has the most live concerts per capita in the United States.