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TIL President Warren G. Harding once gambled away the entire White House china set in a card game

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bQv0 TIL While on tour with Motley Crew in 1984, Ozzy Osbourne asked Nikki Sixx for a line of cocaine. After being told there was none, Ozzy grabbed a straw, and snorted ants. Nikki confessed: “From that moment on. We knew there was always someone who was sicker and more disgusting than we were.”
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a849y TIL that a linguistic's research led by Seymour (2003) shows that, on average, English-native learners take 2 more years to learn to read (decode) the same words than groups of learners in another country learning to read in their language, say, Finnish, which has an easier & more systematic system.