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TIL 'The Texas Chansaw Masacre', 'The Silence Of The Lambs' and 'Psycho' were all inspired by the same killer, Edward Theodore Gein

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W7LZL TIL Pom-pom hats are not only cute addition to a hat, but were useful to French sailors. When the waters got rough, the pom-poms on their hats kept them from hitting their heads on the low roofs of the boats.
5DYD TIL that there is a secret apartment within the Eiffel Tower. To this day, it is rarely open for public viewing.
JYLy4 TIL Early in his naval career, Horatio Nelson nearly died while fighting a polar bear. Wanting the bear’s pelt as a gift for his father, Nelson’s gun misfired and he attacked the bear with the butt of his rifle. He was only saved when his ship fired a cannon that scared the bear and it ran off.
pY8lO TIL golf champion Ben Hogan was in a near-fatal car crash. Hit head on by a bus, Hogan threw himself in front of his wife to protect her, that saved him from being impaled by the steering wheel. After 2 month in the hospital and multiple surgeries, Hogan won 6 more majors, including 3 in one year.
PZnJ TIL that the metallic “coin smell” is not from the coins themselves, but that it is actually a body odor produced when you touch the coins