12 Incredible, Almost Unbelievable Facts About New Jersey

We have 715,000 acres of farmland. This comes out to about 1117 square miles. The country of Hong Kong has 1106 square miles of land.

A Boeing 747 ranges in weight from 735,000 - 970,000 pounds. New Jersey produces nearly 63 million pounds of cranberries each year, and is the third largest producer of cranberries in the nation.

The lovely land in this photo could have been yours! If only you had subscribed to the New York Tribune. In November of 1914, the newspaper, in cooperation with the founder of Beachwood, presented the following offer: "Subscribe to the New York Tribune and secure a lot at Beautiful Beachwood. Act at once, secure your lot in this Summer Paradise now!" This was the greatest premium offered by a newspaper - nothing equal to it was ever attempted in the United States. It seems the plan worked, as subscriptions jumped and Beechwood was settled.

And more horses (racing or otherwise) per square mile than any other state.

The largest seaport in the United States is located in Elizabeth. The dollar value of all cargo that moved through the port in 2014 exceeded $200 billion. That's enough money to buy iPads for every student in the country.

A 5 Kilometer race is 3.1 miles. The Atlantic City boardwalk is currently over 4 miles long. The second longest boardwalk in the U.S. is in Ocean City, Maryland, which comes in at 3.0 miles.

It is also the tallest water tower in the world, at 212 feet. The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands 183 feet tall.

At 78 pounds, 8 ounces, it set a world record. The bass was caught by Al McReynolds in 1982 at the Vermont Avenue Jetty in Atlantic City.

Also the largest brown bear in the world, Goliath was over 12 feet tall and weighed over 2000 pounds. A Geo Metro, one of the lightest cars in recent memory, came in at around 1600 lbs. Goliath has sadly passed, but he can still be seen, stuffed, at Space Farms.

William F. Allen of South Orange devised the time zones to help make train transportation more uniform.

The battleship is 888 feet in length, two football fields would be 720'. It is the largest and most decorated battleship still fully intact. It can be visited in Camden.

It was built in the Kittatinny Mountains by Dutch Settlers circa 1640. Though it is no longer in existence, Sterling Hill Mining Museum, pictured, is a great place to learn about mining and minerals in New Jersey.