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TIL Waggoner Ranch, a 525,000 acre, 800 square mile ranch in North Texas, went up for sale for $725 million and sold for an undisclosed amount to billionaire Stan Kroenke in 2016, making it the largest sale amount ever offered for an American ranch.

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