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TIL lead vocalist of Boston, Brad Delp, committed suicide after personal tension between him and bandleader Scholz, and after his fiancé's sister discovered a hidden camera Delp had planted in her room.

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OoQBL TIL: Joshua Bell, one of the top violinists in the world played during rush hour in a DC metro station on his 3.5 million dollar violin. He acted like a normal street performer, It was an experiment to see if normal people would notice his musical talent. They did not.
VM5Yk TIL of the Ross Village Bakery. Located in rural Tasmania, it is believed by many to have been the inspiration behind the bakery in "Kiki's Delivery Service". Roughly 200 fans of the movie visit every day, and people can pay to spend the night in the "Kiki Room", a loft above the bakery.
VoRQ TIL a Moon-sized diamond was found in space, and it has been dubbed “Lucy” in reference to the Beatles’ song, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.
j6yeX TIL that Klaus and Sunny from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow, a famous attempted murder case where a wealthy lawyer was found guilty of injecting his wife, Sunny, with a deadly insulin cocktail which left her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life
e0Wm6 TIL that Jabba the Hutt was born a hermaphrodite and actually mated with himself to produce a son