NEW JERSEY FACTS.

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* Area code 201, assigned to Bergen and Hudson Counties, was the first area code assigned as part of the North American Numbering Plan.
* New Jersey was recently rated one of the most excellent U.S. states to visit by Zagat's, second only to Ohio.
* New Jersey has the lowest rate of depression in the United States found by a study from NAMI National Alliance on Mental Illness (http://www.nami.org)
* In an April 12, 2007 car accident, Corzine was the third straight New Jersey governor to break a leg while in office. James E. McGreevey broke his left leg in 2002 during a nighttime walk on the beach, and Christie Whitman broke her right leg while skiing in the Swiss Alps in 1999.
* New Jersey has the largest grove of cherry blossom trees in the United States, in Newark's Branch Brook Park, eclipsing the more famous one in Washington D.C.
* The USS New Jersey, one of the most decorated vessels in the United States Navy, was named in honor of this state and is now a tourist attraction in Camden.
* New Jersey is the birthplace of many modern inventions such as: FM radio, the motion picture camera, the lithium battery, the light bulb, transistors, and the electric train. Other New Jersey creations include: the drive-in movie, the cultivated blueberry, cranberry sauce, the postcard, the boardwalk, the zipper, the phonograph, saltwater taffy, the dirigible, the seedless watermelon[49], the first use of a submarine in warfare, and the ice cream cone.
* Joseph Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon I, lived for 17 years in the South Jersey town of Bordentown.
* The first officially recorded baseball game in history was played at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the New York Knickerbockers with a score of 23-1. Alexander Cartwright formalized the rules and umpired.
* The first intercollegiate football game in history was played in New Brunswick, New Jersey on November 6, 1869, with home team Rutgers University defeating Princeton University 6-4. Rutgers University is considered "The Birthplace of College Football."
* The properties in the United States version of the board game Monopoly are named after the streets of Atlantic City.
* The four-mile (6 km) long Boardwalk in Atlantic City was the world's first boardwalk and is still its largest.
* The Lindbergh kidnapping drama unfolded in New Jersey in 1932.
* New Jersey was the national pioneer of Megan's Law sex offender registries, following the 1994 rape and murder of Megan Kanka.
* New Jersey has more horses per square mile than any other state. The United States Equestrian Team now is headquartered in Gladstone after being founded in Morristown.
* The book Jaws by Peter Benchley, which inspired the classic film of the same name, was based on a series of actual shark attacks during the summer of 1916 that took place in Matawan and elsewhere off the Jersey Shore.

A diner in Freehold

* Diners are common in New Jersey. The state is home to many diner manufacturers and has more diners than any other state: over 600. There are more diners in the state of New Jersey than any other place in the world.[50]
* Ben Shahn settled in Roosevelt, New Jersey, and did most of his work there. The art building at William Paterson University of New Jersey is named after him.
* Sculptor Jim Gary grew up in Colts Neck where he also opened his gallery, Iron Butterfly, before moving it to Red Bank. Jim Gary was the only living sculptor ever invited to have a solo show at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Later, his Twentieth Century Dinosaurs exhibition was featured as the first floor exhibit at the grand opening of New Jersey's first major science museum, the Liberty Science Center.
* New Jersey is one of only two states (along with Oregon) where self-service filling of gasoline is prohibited.
* The world's highest quality fluorescent minerals and the most number of minerals found in any one location is located in Franklin Furnace.[citation needed] There are mineral museums in Franklin and Ogdensburg.
* New Jersey is the only state without a state song. "I'm From New Jersey" is incorrectly listed on many websites as being the New Jersey State Song, but wasn't even a contender when in 1996 the New Jersey Arts Council submitted their suggestions to the New Jersey Legislature.[51]
* "Dancin' Larry", the mascot of the New York Rangers, is from Clifton.