- Austin, TX, now named for Stephen F. Austin, was originally called Waterloo
- In the late 1800s, one of the world’s largest concrete dams was just outside of Austin, TX, and stretched more than 1200 feet across
- A then-unknown Willie Nelson was the first guest on Austin City Limits, the longest running country music program, in October 1974
- So many tech firms have come to Austin that it’s now known as Silicon Hills
- Every summer, more than 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats roost beneath the Congress Avenue
- Bridge in Austin, giving it the largest bat population of any city in the world
- Today Austin is home to more than 2,000 food trucks
- Austin is the most populous city in the country without a professional sports team
