There's a lot to love about our great Garden State...but here are 10 facts you might not know about!

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    Horses everywhere!

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    Home of Baseball's First Game

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    The Flavor Corridor is here.

    A lot of your favorite processed and fast foods taste the way they do because of natural and artificial flavors created by companies along the "Flavor Corridor" which runs along the Turnpike from about exit 8a all the way up to the Teaneck area! Yum?

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    Home of the boardwalk!

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    Disco fries, please.

    New Jersey is home to the most diners in the world. (And with good reason. Only we know how awesome they are.)

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    Home of the first football game

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    See you at the Drive-in!

    America's first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden in 1933. (The last one standing is the Delsea Drive-In in Vineland.)

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    Cheers!

    America's oldest commercial distillery can be found in the Scobeyville section of Colts Neck. Laird & Co. is best known for their Applejack, but they're also responsible for the Banker's Club line of vodka, rum, and whiskey that got me through many a college weekend!

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    Jersey - The Metropolitan State!

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    We're high.

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