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TIL after Lorena Bobbitt cut off her sleeping husband's penis, she fled the house and stole his Gameboy on the way out the door.

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ADd44 TIL that Dr. William Marston is the creator of Wonder Woman and the "lie detector"
MnbW TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
7jbp TIL aged five, Phil Collins entered a talent content at Butlins singing The Ballad of Davy Crockett, stopping the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were playing in the wrong key
KYAK9 TIL in 1940s and 50s America coin-op machines called the “Voice-O-Graph” were commonly available to instantly record a single vinyl record from an attached microphone for a few quarters
QJYyX Today I learned that Dr. Seuss's name should actually be pronounced "Soice", but he embraced the "Soose" mispronunciation because it rhymed with Mother Goose.