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TIL an air guitar that was claimed to have been played in a Bon Jovi concert was sold on eBay for 5.50$.

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vlkx TIL in the ‘80s, Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth took out a $1 million paternity insurance policy. This protected him against any claims from overzealous fans that he had fathered their child.
4XN7J TIL the National Trust implores us to stop urinating in a toilet, in order to save the water used in flushing, and instead wee onto compost heaps, which speeds up the chemical process of decomposition, making it a better fertiliser to grow vegetables and save even more energy in reducing food miles.
NXxQJ TIL Plants receive more energy on a cloudy day in the summer than on a sunny day in the winter.
Wn5d TIL the Super Soaker inventor is a Tuskegee-trained NASA engineer who used the money earned from a toy to do research on solar power and batteries
Egrao TIL there are 31 US states with a county named Washington (the most common county etymology), but Washington state isn’t one of them