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• ... that the tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey is the 781-foot (238 m) 30 Hudson Street (pictured)?
• ... that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
• ... that the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?

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• ... that the Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel (map at right) is a proposed underwater tunnel for rail transport of freight between central New Jersey and southern New York City, United States?
• ... that the All-American Wistert brothers Albert, Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame?
• ... that diners at beefsteak banquets "keep score" by piling up the bread slices that come with their beef tenderloin?

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• ... that college football player Bob Ward is the only player to have been selected by the Associated Press as a first-team All-American in both an offensive and defensive position?
• ... that when railroad tracks to Passaic, New Jersey were severed by the Erie Lackawanna Railway, they left the bridge swung open and kept short service to the Carlton Hill station in Rutherford, New Jersey?
• ... that only 0.32-mile (0.51 km) long, New Jersey Route 64 is a state highway that consists primarily of a bridge over Amtrak-maintained railroad tracks?

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• ... that the original plans for the Laurence Harbor NJ Transit station included a large commercial and residential development?
• ... that at a fantasy basketball camp, John W. Rogers Jr. defeated Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one, witnessed by John Thompson, Jr., Mike Krzyzewski and Damon Wayans?
• ... that Grove Church Cemetery has been called "a cemetery for the living"?

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• ... that George Thomas Coker, apart from George McKnight, was the POW to escape from the "Hanoi Hilton"?
• ... that when the FBI celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008, Walter Walsh, its oldest living former agent, was one year older than the agency itself?
• ... that the New Jersey County Colleges is a system of 19 public community colleges with over 60 campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey?

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• ... that of the thirty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University, seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
• ... that Vince Naimoli, founding owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, contributed US$1 million in 2007 for the construction of a baseball complex at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey?
• ... that the $1 million spent by Sean F. Dalton and the other candidates in the 1993 General Assembly race for New Jersey's 4th Legislative District was the most for any district in the state that year?

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• ... that Carmine DeSopo was elected to office in 1995 in the New Jersey General Assembly's 7th Legislative District in the first legislative race in state history in which spending exceeded $1 million?
• ... that former New Jersey Representative Fred A. Hartley Jr., co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft–Hartley Act, served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor?
• ... that in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?

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• ... that the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey contains artwork by Francis David Millet, Kenyon Cox, Edwin Blashfield and Howard Pyle?
• ... that before "the mouth that roared" was mayor of Jersey City, he was vice-president of Hudson County Community College?
• ... that the original and current Landing Road bridges in Landing, New Jersey, stood side-by-side until the demolition of the older structure?

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• ... that in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times?
• ... that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
• ... that awaiting sentencing, David Friedland faked his death while diving and was America's most wanted fugitive until his arrest in the Maldives years later where he built a chain of scuba diving shops?

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• ... that Louis Ayres designed the chapel at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France?
• ... that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
• ... that three of the five highest NBA career point totals by Ivy League players were by Princeton Tigers men's basketball players?

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• ... that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale, an experimental Civil War-era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?
• ... that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel"?
• ... that Thomas S. Rodgers was one of five members of his family to reach the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy during the first 25 years of the 20th century?

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• ... that former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?
• ... that Boston Red Sox baseball player Ryan Kalish didn’t miss a single pitch he swung at in his senior year of high school baseball?
• ... that Joe Plumeri, CEO of Willis Group Holdings, got his start in 1968 by accidentally interviewing with future Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill at what he mistakenly thought was a law firm?

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