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TIL show sponsor Home Depot pushed out host Bob Vila from PBS's This Old House in 1989 due to his sponsorship of then-competitor Rickel. He was paid so little by the network, whose funding had been slashed, that he decided to stick with Rickel rather than the show.

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wLYao TIL that the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.
epkln TIL: Henriette d'Angeville was the first woman who climbed the MontBlanc unaided. She had to design her own climbing clothes. She took with her 18 bottles of wine and 26 roasted chickens. At the top she was lifted by her guides so that she 'had gone higher than any man before her'.
W7YpX TIL Hawaii is not part of North America (or any continent) but is in the geographic region Oceania
VMXGQ TIL Empire Strikes Back, the most critically acclaimed of the Star Wars films, made the least amount at the box office in the entire franchise.
9Y51p TIL European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN, widely known for its project, the Large Hadron Collider (and popularized in the film Angels & Demons), it is also where the World Wide Web began as a CERN project named ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and Robert Cailliau in 1990.