New Jersey is a peninsula.

New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the diner capital of the world .

New Jersey has the highest population density in the U.S. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average .

New Jersey has the highest percent urban population in the U.S. with about 90% of the people living in an urban area .

New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas .

North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with more cars stolen in Newark then any other city. Even the 2 largest cities, NYC and LA put together .

New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U . S .

Cape May holds the distinction of being the oldest seashore resort in the United States .

North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world with seven major shopping malls in a 25 sq. mile radius .

New Jersey has more racehorses than Kentucky .

New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island .

Passaic river was the site to the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland .

New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of the nations most famous, Asbury park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside heights, Cape May .

New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation .

New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba .

New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the U . S . located in Elizabeth .

Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Redman, Das EFX, Naughty by Nature, Sugar Hill Gang, Lords of the Underground, Jason Alexander, Ice-T, Queen Latifa, Shaq, Judy Blume, Arron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Jerry Lewis, Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lou Costello, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DaVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Robert Blake, John Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit,Norman Lloyd, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey,John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Uncle Floyd, Susan Sarandon, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman,Joan Robertson, Joseph Czesnik, Dr.Carl Gedon, John Milewski, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Carole Baker, Judy Sharpe,Sarah Vaughn, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Eryka Badu (Thanx-Dana) Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, and Ben Affleck (Thanx Michelle) all New Jersey natives .

The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory .

New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City .

Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly .

Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world .

New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries .

Highland, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida .

The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey .

New Jersey has the tallest water tower in the world .

The first tin-foil phonograph developed by Thomas Edison was crude, but it proved this point-- that sound could be recorded and played back. Thomas Edison had phonograph demonstrations and became world-renowned as the "Wizard of Menlo Park" for this invention .

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey .

New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers child abuse prevention workshops to every public school .

The first baseball game was played in Hoboken .

The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, in 1869. Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers won (and they haven't won since) .

Ultimate Frisbee was invented in 1969 by students at Maplewood's Columbia High School .

The first intercollegiate Ultimate Frisbee game was played between Rutgers and Princeton. This was on the same field as the first football game (The field is now a parking lot) . Rutgers won (they won the 1st 4 yrs, they sucked ever since) .

The first Drive-In Movie theatre was opened in Camden .

New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country .

Origin of name: From the Channel Isle of Jersey .

The first seaplane was built in Keyport .

Tourism is the second-largest industry in New Jersey .

In 1977, New Jersey voters approved legislation allowing legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City .

The first phonograph records were made in Camden .

New Jersey has 21 counties .

Although the Borough of Ship Bottom was incorporated in 1925, the name dates back to a shipwreck that occurred in March 1817, when Captain Stephen Willets of rescued a young woman from the hull of a ship overturned in the shoals. The rescue became known as " Ship Bottom . "

State motto is liberty and prosperity .

The invention and manufacturing of the Colt Revolver was in Paterson .

The honeybee, apis mellifera, is the New Jersey state bug .

The state seashell is the knobbed whelk, busycon carica gmelin, it is found on all beaches and bays of New Jersey .

Modern paleontology, the science of studying dinosaur fossils, began in 1858 with the discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur in Haddonfield, New Jersey. The Hadrosaurus is the official New Jersey state dinosaur .

Atlantic City's original summer visitors were the Absegami Indians of the Lenni Lenape tribe .

Parsippany has been named Tree City USA for 24 consecutive years .

New Jersey's state seal was designed by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere and presented in May 1777 .

Hardware and software related companies account for nearly 2,700 companies in New Jersey .

The Statue, "Soldier At Rest" was dedicated to New Jersey Civil War veterans on June 28, 1875. It was purchased by the New Jersey State Legislature for $10,000 .

Unofficially divided into two parts... This side and that side of the parkway bridge .

General Philip Kearny had a New Jersey town and 2 military decorations named after him .

The Borough of Roosevelt is the only municipality in New Jersey that is, in it's entirety, a registered National Historic Site .

Hammonton is the " blueberry capital of the world " .

According to the last census: By town population, Hammonton is the Italian capital of the united states. .

And last but not least .... New Jersey produces the most beautiful women in the world !