4 Interesting Facts About Texas

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Fact #1
• Texas was an independent republic for 9 years.
• In 1836 the state separated from Mexico.
Congress of the Republic of Texas
• In 1845 during the Mexican-American War, Texas
was annexed to America as a state.

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Fact #2
• In state Texas the President of the USA John Kennedy was assassinated.
*Assassination [əsæsɪˈneɪʃn] = политическое убийство
• This tragic event was happened in 1963 in Dallas (city of Texas).

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Fact #3
• In Texas citizens can legally purchase almost any weapon.
• There are more than thirty thousand (300 000) registered machine guns in Texas alone.

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Fact #4
• The world's first hamburger was made in Texas.
• For more than a quarter of a century, Athens, Texas, has been boasting (хвастаются) that the world’s first
hamburgers were created in the late 1880’s at a small cafe run by a man known as Uncle Fletcher Davis.