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TIL that on December 6, 2012, Journey became the first video game in history to be nominated for a Grammy Award

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x68bB TIL about the Beekman Arms, America's oldest continuously operating hotel. Its guests include George Washington, Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryan. FDR held speeches from the front porch
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