13. New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of the nations most famous, Asbury park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside heights, Cape May.
14. New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation.
15. New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the U.S. located in Elizabeth.
16. Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Redman, Das EFX, Naughty by Nature, Sugar Hill Gang, Lords of the Underground, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Shaq, Judy Blume, Arron Burr, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Grover Cleveland, all New Jersey natives.
17. The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.
18. New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City.
19. Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly
20. Fort Dix is named for Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War. During his distinguished public career, he was a United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Minister to France and Governor of New York.
21. Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
22. New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries.
23. The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.
24. New Jersey has the tallest water tower in the world.