8 Random Things That Wouldn't Exist if It Weren't for People From Texas

Every time you pound down a Slurpee, you have Texas to thank. In 1927, Jefferson "Uncle Johnny" Green, an employee of Southland Ice Company, began selling grocery basics - milk, eggs, bread - at their pop-up store fronts. The items were such a hit, the company had the idea implemented at 21 retail stores, and thus, the magnificent convenient store was born.

While the first official ATM made its debut in New York, that one could only dispense cash. The first modern ATM, as we know it today - with depositing capabilities, account info access, etc. - was innovated by Don Wetzel, an executive of a Dallas-based baggage handling firm, Docutel. It made its official debut in 1971.

While the original margarita on ice originated in Mexico, the official "slushy" version, was created in 1971 by Dallas restaurant owner, Mariano Martinez, when he McGayvered his soft-serve machine to dispense margarita mix.

In 1962, Houston doctors Frank Gerow and Thomas Cronin changed the world of cosmetic surgery by developing silicone breast implants with the hopes they would become the go-to for reconstructive surgeries. And they certainly weren't off - there have been a total of 4,798,349 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. alone, since 1997.

As hard as it is to believe, corndogs were not a gift from Heaven. Brothers Carl and Neil Fletcher sold the first “Fletcher’s Corny Dog” at the State Fair of Texas in 1942. Since then, everyone from Hilary Clinton, to Steven Tyler has devoured the battered treat.

While Bette Nesmith Graham was a secretary at Texas Bank and Trust in the 1950s, she began using tempera paint and a thin paintbrush to cover her typing mistakes. She eventually started bottling her own paint concoction in 1956 as “Mistake Out,” patenting it and renaming it Liquid Paper, years later. BIC’s version of the product, "Wite-Out," wasn’t trademarked until 1974.

Think Coca-Cola is the kit and caboodle of soft drinks? Because they were the very first, right? Wrong. Dr Pepper Snapple Group is the country’s oldest manufacturer of soft drink syrups — and it got its start in Waco, Texas in 1885, a year before Coca-Cola was started.

You know the device your using to read this right now? Yeah, thank Texas for that. Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based electronics trailblazer, revolutionized the tech world in 1959 when it introduced the microchip at the Radio Engineers’ annual trade show in New York. While no one knew it at the time — how could they — the microchip would eventually become the gro