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• In the early 1990s, Karl Lagerfeld caused US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to walk out of his runway show when he employed strippers and adult film star Moana Pozzi to model his black-and-white collection for Fendi.
• In 1970, Diane Crump became the first woman jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby.
• Italian Sailors from Genoa were the first to wear blue jeans.
• In 1986, Sharon Wood from Canmore, Alberta was the first Canadian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
• In 19th century England it was considered vulgar to hold an umbrella under one's arm.
• In 1928, Canada's Track & Field Olympic Games included women for the first time.
• During the Renaissance, fashionable aristocratic Italian women shaved their hair several inches back from their natural hairlines.
• "If I can take pot roast rods and have a one-of-a-kind invention, believe me, people can do what they set their minds to." - Marjorie Joyner, inventor of the permanent hair wave machine.
• In 1897, Clara Brett Martin became Canada's first lawyer and the first woman to practice law in the entire British Empire.