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TIL that Disney is contractually required to air televangelist Pat Robertson's show The 700 Club, because Robertson's organization originally owned the cable TV channelstation that is now Freeform.

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dV8B TIL Winston Churchill’s epitaph states, “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
loXyG TIL flags are flown at half-mast because the invisible flag of death is flying at the top.
69vGQ TIL biologists may have discovered the world's largest rat species, which was found in the crater of a volcano in Papua New Guinea
6Pdl TIL that when asked what it was like working with Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, comedian Doug Stanhope (who hosted GGW) responded “He’s pure, unadulterated evil” and “The most awful human being I’ve ever met in all of my time in the entertainment business.”
8eRaV TIL about Robert Rogers, who led Roger's Rangers, precursor to the US Army Rangers, during the French & Indian War, . During the American Revolution, Rogers is best known for remaining loyal to the British, after George Washington had him arrested, and later identifying Nathan Hale as a spy.