Post * XEKdj — Curious Curator

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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.

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QJmRd TIL Richie Havens created the song "Freedom" spontaneously at the Woodstock festival as he had nothing else to play, but needed to continue performing as the other acts were delayed. It became his most famous song. He then had to watch the Woodstock movie to learn how to play it.

749Z TIL Professor Xavier(X-Men) has a son named Legion who has over 200 multiple personalities and each personality has a different superpower

D1D1j TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival released 3 albums in a single year (1969), all reaching Top 10 on the US Billboard chart. That same year they also toured incessantly, played Woodstock, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.

v1anL TIL that Dr. Fe Del Mundo, the first woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical School and inventor of an incubator made of bamboo, sold her house to create the Philippines' first pediatric hospital and continued making her hospital rounds until she was 99 years old.

x6JY5 TIL that nearly 100 years ago researchers at Princeton University successfully turned a living cat into a functioning telephone. Using a series of electrodes, they captured the electrical signals from the cat's auditory nerves and converted them into sound waves.