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The World’s Largest, Longest, Tallest, and Smallest in Texas

December 21, 2018 | By John Lumpkin

“EVERYTHING’S BIGGER IN TEXAS”

How often have you heard that? The New-York Tribune is said to have coined the phrase more than a century ago. Though not quite everything in the Lone Star State qualifies as the world’s largest, tallest, longest, or widest, plenty do. Hitting the road to find them is a gargantuan trip in itself.

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