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TIL that in 1560, Queen Elizabeth became the first well-known woman to wear stockings, which up until that point, was considered menswear.

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JY7vl TILL That Winifer Fernandez was named #7 by the Salvadorian newspaper El Mundo among the 10 most beautiful and coveted athletes in the world. She reacted expressing that is a honor and a compliment for the Dominican women, but that she would like to be remembered for her playing skills.
m1wkv TIL that before Esther Williams became an actress, she planned on competing in the 1940 Olympics, but the Olympics games were cancelled that year due to the outbreak of the Second World War.
noB9 TIL that the widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husbands rifles.
wLAL8 TIL Martha Stewart dated Sir Anthony Hopkins but ended the relationship after she saw The Silence of the Lambs. She stated she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter
WAGo TIL of Verkhoyanks, a town in Russia where the average temperature is -45C/-49F. In the middle of a 7 month winter the 1300 residents were attacked by a pack of 400 wolves.