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TIL that Disney once offered televangelist Pat Robertson $42 million to let them remove "The 700 Club" from Freeform's lineup, but he said no. Freeform began as the satellite channel of Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network; he sold it in the '90s, but every owner since has had to air the show.

x6vQ7 TIL Snoop Dog now owns Death Row Records, in a deal signed just before his Super Bowl LVI half time show in 2022. It was a sensational 90s hip hop label that released iconic albums by Dr Dre, Snoop Dog and 2Pac - and went through multiple owners like Hasbro and the Blackstone Group.
pJmO TIL Congress Passed a Law Preventing Congress From Insider Trading After Public Outrage then Quietly Rolled Back the Rules For Themselves with the President Signing It!
VoGm TIL that Dagwood Bumstead is a son of a billionaire railroad tycoon that got disinherited when he married Blondie.
Br8ne TIL that, in 1954, Betty White was criticized for having Arthur Duncan, a black performer, on her show. When the show went national, affiliates from southern states complained and Betty said "I'm sorry. Live with it" and gave Duncan more airtime. The show was soon cancelled.
1aAOO TIL priest Joseph Müller told a joke of a dying German soldier who asked to see people for whom he was laying down his life. The nurse laid a portrait of Hitler and Göring next to him. The soldier said "Now I can die like Jesus Christ" [between two criminals]. Müller was executed for the joke.