Here Are 10 Crazy, Fun + Interesting Facts About the Great State of Texas

In 1996, a man in Edinburg, Texas, was bitten by a poisonous coral snake. What did he do? He bit back, taking the snake's head off and used the skin as a tourniquet -- a move that likely saved his life. The skin helped keep the venom from spreading.

He kept the head as a keepsake (or should we say, "keepsnake?").

Texas has enough crude oil reserves to fill up more than 1,450 Empire State Buildings. The Lone Star State has nearly 10 billion barrels in its reserves, making up almost a third of the entire reserves held by the U.S. The Empire State Building has a volume of 276,779,000 gallons, while Texas' oil reserves is more than 404 billion gallons.

In Texas it is illegal to milk another person's cow. Seriously.

Allen, Texas, is home to the nation's most expensive high school football stadium. Eagle Stadium, which holds 18,000, cost $60 million to build. A year-and-a-half later, though, the stadium was closed indefinitely because construction flaws caused cracks and it was deemed unsafe. It reopened last month in time for the 2015 graduation.

Texas is home to the world famous King Ranch in West Texas. "The birthplace of Texas ranching" is 825,000 acres, making it larger than the state of Rhode Island. It covers six different counties in Texas.

There is a time capsule buried under the Don Harrington Discovery Center in Amarillo with a savings passbook inside with a $10 deposit attached to it. The capsule is supposed to be opened in 2968 after 1,000 years, and the account is expected to be worth $1 quadrillion.

In 1942, the BBC banned the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" during work hours because the worry was the infectious melody would cause wartime factory workers to neglect their tools while they clapped along to the song.

The oldest tree in Texas -- The Big Tree in Rockport -- is estimated to be more than 1,000 years old, and some recent estimates have it at nearly 2,000 years old. If you called it 1,500 years old, that would date it 500 years before the First Crusade. The Big Tree has survived an estimated 40 to 50 natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, droughts and wildfires. It is one of the oldest live oaks in existence.

There are three electric power grids in the lower 48 states -- the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection and Texas. That's right, we have our own power grid. Why? Because Texas.

Two Best Picture-nominated movies were being filmed at the same time in the West Texas town of Marfa in 2007 -- 'There Will Be Blood' and 'No Country for Old Men.' In fact, 'No Country for Old Men' (which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards) had to stop filming for a day because of a massive amount of smoke coming from where 'There Will Be Blood' was being filmed. Pyrotechnics were being tested of an oil derrick being set on fire.