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What are breakfast tacos?
These are Austin's favorite food and can be found everywhere in the mornings.
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Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Austin is named after this man.
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What is Austin FC?
Austin used to be the largest city in the United States without a professional sports team until these guys moved to town.
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What is white?
Austin chalk is famously known to be this color.
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What is Hairy Man Road?
The local bigfoot known as, "The Hairy Man" lives on this road.
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What are kolaches?
This Czech food is a local breakfast favorite and can be found just as often as breakfast tacos.
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What are humans?
These creatures moved in around 9200 BC and have just made traffic unbearable ever since.
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Who are the Longhorns?
This local football team has the 9th largest stadium in the country and seats over 100,000 people.
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What is water?
66 million years ago Austin was entirely under this.
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What are dogs?
Austin has been voted as one of the most friendly cities for what four-legged citizens?
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What is Tiff's Treats?
This cookie delivery company was founded in Austin in 1999.
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What are the Tonkawa tribes?
These tribes occupied Austin long before European settlers.
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What is South by Southwest (SXSW)?
This festival kicked off in 1986 after three staffers at The Austin Chronicle created the idea for a local festival to showcase Austin's musical talent.
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What are bats?
Austin is the proud host of the largest colony of these in North America.
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Who is Eeyore?
Austin celebrates this characters birthday the last Saturday of every April.
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What are food trucks?
These sprouted up in the 90s on South Congress but now there's over 2000 of them around the city.
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What are moonlight towers?
Austin built these in 1894 to light up parts of the city at night and is now the only city in the world still operating these types of towers.
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What is Austin City Limits?
Willie Nelson was the original headliner of this event that is now the country's longest running live music broadcast.
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What is the Colorado River?
This river was dammed to create the two local lakes.
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What is New York City?
Austin covers as much land area as this massive city in the state of New York.
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What is Whole Foods?
This grocery store was founded in 1978 in Austin and was acquired by Amazon in 2017.
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What is Waterloo?
This was Austin's original name.
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What is Circuit of the Americas?
This is the only Formula 1 race track in the United States and is in North Austin.
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What is Lady Bird Lake?
This lake was formally known as Town Lake.
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The live music capital of the world.
Austin is known for being a popular live music venue, so much so that it is known by this name globally.
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