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MTV launched “Jersey Shore” 13 years ago featuring a group of young Italian Americans partying it up in a rental home at Seaside Heights, New Jersey, becoming a beachside hit with memorable reality show characters like Snooki, DJ Pauly D and “The Situation” coining phrases like ”grenade” and “gym, tan, laundry.”

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