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Weird, true, 100% Jersey. One fun fact at a time.

Two huge mobs in 1869 street clothes collide in a dust cloud chasing one ball as onlookers gasp.

Did You Know? The First College Football Game Was Rutgers vs. Princeton in New Brunswick, 1869

Rutgers 6, Princeton 4, New Brunswick, Nov. 6, 1869: widely recognized as college football's very first game. Two Jersey schools invented a sport by arguing. Of course they did.

A giant wooden elephant building towers over an 1880s beach as a top-hatted salesman pitches land deeds to a crowd.

Did You Know? Lucy the Elephant Has Stood Six Stories Tall in Margate Since 1881

Margate's Lucy the Elephant was built in 1881 as a giant real estate ad. Her two big relatives are gone, her neighbors saved her, and now she's a National Historic Landmark. Nobody warned me.