The Texas park at the center of the border battle between Texas and Washington DC is named after a confederate general who refused to surrender and instead fled to Mexico.
Texas is famous for having everything bigger than anyone or anywhere else and that includes our "tall tales". Every state has 'em but (some of) ours are true!
We have scorpions in East Texas and all over the Lone Star State. There are around 18 different species of these denizens of Hell, I mean scorpions, in Texas. But some are much more common than others.