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TIL The Woman of Seine was the unknown woman whose body was pulled out of the Seine River.A post-mortem pathologist at the morgue was so taken by her beauty that he made a plaster cast death mask of her face.Now that mask is used as the face of the CPR mannequin and is the most kissed face on earth.

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ba4N TIL: Chicago, “The Windy City”, got that nickname not because of its weather, but because of its politicians bragging about the city to win the 1893 World’s Fair. Its average wind speed of 10.3 mph is not even exceptional relative to other American cities: Boston- 12.4mph, and NYC- 9.3mph.