6/84Number of people who have applied for the job of executioner in New Jersey: 50
8/86Tons of cargo handled at the Port of New York and New Jersey in 1985: 15,344,000
10/87Cost of storing a unit of blood for three years at Bloodline, Inc., in New Jersey: $150
5/90Amount of trash on display at the Trash Museum in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, in pounds: 1,000
9/90Federal housing funds spent by New Jersey’s Passaic Housing Authority in 1988 and 1989 to feed stray cats: $14,865
6/94Age, in years, of a piece of wedding fruitcake on display at the Grover Cleveland Birthplace, in Caldwell, New Jersey: 106
12/95Attendance at a one-day job fair held in Newark, New Jersey, last August to fill 130 teaching positions: 1,400
8/96Length, in feet, of the course used this month at New Jersey’s Annual Cockroach Derby: 4
3/97Number of sex offenders’ addresses registered with New Jersey police since the passage of Megan’s law: 3,532
7/97Lines of Walt Whitman poetry entered as evidence last year in New York’s dispute with New Jersey over Ellis Island: 37
11/98Years in prison to which New Jersey’s Amy Grossberg was sentenced last July for killing her newborn: 2.5
6/98Ratio of the size of New Jersey to the number of square miles of Brazilian rain forest cleared since 1994: 1:3
8/98Factor by which the 1915 birth weight of Frank Sinatra exceeds the average weight of a baby born in New Jersey today: 2
3/99Number of times one New Jersey high school was evacuated in the last school year due to bomb threats: 30
10/00Average number of people living per square mile in the Gaza Strip, New Jersey, and Japan, respectively: 8,000, 1,100, 828
8/00Amount New Jersey’s Camden police spent on riot gear in preparation for Philadelphia’s GOP convention: $47,775
2/01Pages of documents related to racial profiling by New Jersey State Police released by the state last year: 91,000
5/02Days after September 11 that New Jersey’s Iman Abdallah applied to trademark the phrase “Let’s roll”: 11
Days later that the foundation named for the man who immortalized the phrase applied to trademark it: 4
6/03Number of different strains of tuberculosis whose DNA has been catalogued by a New Jersey microbiologist: 17,000
7/03Number of terrorism indictments brought since September 2001 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey: 62
Number of them brought against Middle Eastern students for paying others to take their English proficiency tests: 60
11/04Maximum number of rounds a semi-automatic rifle may hold to be considered legal in New Jersey: 15
Maximum number allowed by the recently lifted federal ban on assault rifles: 10
4/04Number of the 76 reported attempts by bears to break into New Jersey homes last year that were successful: 53
8/04Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way: 4:5
1/06Number of plague-infected mice that a New Jersey biomedical research center says cannot be accounted for: 3
4/06Cost of a U.S. pilot project in a New Jersey school to use an eye scanner to identify all adults who enter: $369,000
1/07Minimum number of New Jersey public officials who have been indicted since 2002: 104
1/08Percentage of New Jersey residents who say they would like to move out of the state: 49
Percentage who aren’t sure whether they would or not: 7