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| | SIX THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT: NEW JERSEY. |
 | | In addition, potential members of the crew have to maintain New Jersey addresses, to get around a New York-imposed rule that says nobody from New York can be a member of the Jersey gang, according to Ganglandnews.com, run by Jerry Capeci, a journalist who has covered organized crime for decades. |
 | | But cheerleading actually got started in New Jersey, when the Tigers of Princeton University decided the best way to distract their opponents -- the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights -- would be by yelling what they called "The Scarer," that is, blood-curdling shouts anytime one of the Rutgers faithful ran with the ball. |
 | | The NJ State Legislature justifies this in a number of ways -- saying cashiers can't see what you're doing, that low-income earners are subjected to the hazards of self-service gas in other states because, in other states, full-service is more costly, and because attendants don't make proper checks at those stations anyway. |
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