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Mustachioed players in suspenders scramble over a round ball in 1869 New Brunswick as a grumpy man in a bowler hat glares from a bench.

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.

Lucy the Elephant towers over a crowded Margate beach as seagulls circle and a sunburned man in a tank top holds up his phone.

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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.

New Jersey Is Haunted

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

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

New Jersey Is Haunted

The Jersey Devil

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Absecon Lighthouse

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