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TIL The Talking Heads only had ONE top 10 hit: Burning Down the House. Once in a Lifetime didn’t even make the top 100.

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eO0k TIL Bobby Farrell, male singer of 70’s disco group “Boney M”, known for their hit single “Rasputin”, died while on tour on the anniversary of the death of Rasputin, in the same city where Rasputin died, St.Petersburg.
1aWAW TIL that serial killer in New Orleans sent letter to the newspapers that on the night of March 19 he would kill again, but would spare any place where jazz band was playing. That night New Orleans' dance halls were fully filled, including many jazz house parties. There were no murders that night
GLVQ TIL entrepreneur George F. Johnson pioneered 40 hour workweeks, paid industry-leading wages, sold homes to employees at a loss, built parks, pools, medical facilities, etc. and still turned a profit with his 10,000 employee company.
bvlN TIL that Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd would say to his friends and family that we would never live to be thirty. He was 29 when he was killed in a plane crash while on tour.
vmVj TIL In 2010 Dave Grohl was admitted to hospital due to a drug overdose… He had consumed too much caffeine from coffee whilst recording a new album.