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TIL Walt Whitman lost his job at the Dept. of the Interior after publishing "Leaves of Grass" because the Secretary of the Interior found it offensive.

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VMJ64 TIL the author of The Witcher sold the rights to his works to CD Projekt Red for a lump sum of $9,350, as he didn’t think the franchise would be successful. After the video game series became a success, he sued for $16.1 million.
KOGBR TIL the spotted white porcelain anemone crab has highly unusual seafan-shaped claws which it uses to filter the water while sitting on top of an anemone by first collecting mucus from its host anemone's tentacles and then using that to attract and gather small sea creatures and plankton for food.
W7X1d TIL The first US cross country road trip was by Jacob Murdock in 1908 it took 32 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes.
nOKr TIL that the American oil company Texaco directly supported the Spanish Fascist Fransisco Franco in his war against democracy in the 1930’s. He provided fuel to the Nazis and the Spanish/Italian Fascists and intel to help bomb Democratic fuel ships
D1GKY TIL that wealthier urban and suburban neighborhoods are associated with larger and more fertile spiders due to the higher quality of food and green spaces.