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New Jersey
New Jersey firsts include the first professional basketball games in 1896 and the first college football game in 1869.
The first drive-in movie theater opened in 1933 outside of Camden.
The first dinosaur skeleton discovered in North America was found in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1858.
About one-sixth of all drugs manufactured in the United States come from New Jersey.
No other state has as dense a system of highways and railroads as New Jersey.
New Jersey is the nation's most densely populated state.
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.
The state seashell is the knobbed whelk, (Busycon carica gmelin) because it is found on all beaches and bays of New Jersey.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.
New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation.
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 home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City.
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