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TIL That in 2007, renown violinist Joshua Bell once played 6 Bach pieces at a metro station in DC. He played some of the hardest songs ever on a $3,500,000 violin for 45 minutes, and made $32 with 6 people watching. He frequently sells out shows for $100 a piece. There was no applause.

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oRADR TIL that the 4th Earl of Sandwich, for whom the sandwich was named, served as Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution. His poor leadership contributed to the American victory, and it was said that "Seldom has any man held so many offices and accomplished so little."
0dXpM TIL that in 2002, Chumbawamba accepted $100k from General Motors for the rights to use one of their songs in a Pontiac commercial. The band then donated it to a corporate watchdog group that used the money to launch an information campaign against GM.
dDaZ8 TIL: There is 12,000 year old rock art in the middle of the Sahara Desert, created by humans when the Sahara was still green and full of life. Some historians believe the human experience of watching the Sahara dry up still exists today as the story of the Garden of Eden
69gll TIL about empty nose syndrome (ENS) a disorder that sometimes occurs after corrective surgery for a deviated septum that makes its sufferers feel like they are constantly drowning and can often drive them to suicide
woj96 TIL about the Family Viewing Hour, a 1975 FCC policy that TV networks in the USA had to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of prime-time. The policy was abandoned in 1977 following a ruling by a federal court that it violated the First Amendment.