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25. The first tin-foil phonograph developed by Thomas Edison was crude, but it proved his 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.
26. New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers child abuse prevention workshops to every public school.
27. The first baseball game was played in Hoboken.
28. The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, in 1869. Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers won.
29. The first Drive-In Movie theatre was opened in Camden.
30. New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps. Which is the most in any one state in the nation.
31. New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.
32. Origin of name: From the Channel Isle of Jersey.
33. Tourism is the second-largest industry in New Jersey.
34. In 1977, New Jersey voters approved legislation allowing legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City.
35. New Jersey has 21 counties.
36. 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 Tuckerton rescued a young woman from the hull of a ship overturned in the shoals. The rescue became known as "Ship Bottom."
37. State motto is liberty and prosperity.
38. The honeybee, apis mellifera, is the New Jersey state bug.
39. The state seashell is the knobbed whelk, busycon carica gmelin, it is found on all beaches and bays of New Jersey.
40. 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.
41. Atlantic City's original summer visitors were the Absegami Indians of the Lenni Lenape tribe.
42 Fair Haven is believed to have been seasonally inhabited by native Indians prior to the coming of European settlers in the 1660's
43. Parsippany has been named Tree City USA for 24 consecutive years.
44. New Jersey's state seal was designed by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere and presented in May 1777.
45. Software and software related companies account for nearly 2,700 companies in New Jersey.
46. 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.
47. General Philip Kearny had a New Jersey town and 2 military decorations named after him.
48 The Borough of Roosevelt is the only municipality in New Jersey that is, in its entirety, a registered National Historic Site
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