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TIL that during a prohibition new years eve party --Just after midnight on January 1, 1923, federal agents burst into the Chase Hotel’s posh Palm Room for a whiskey raid. Furious party-goers began pummeling the officers --All the while the orchestra kept playing in an effort to drown out the noise.

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