How Princess Diana Bravely Defied The Rules of the Royal Family

A Record-Breaking Wedding Dress

Diana's ivory taffeta wedding dress was made by the husband-and-wife design team David and Elizabeth Emanuel. It boasted over 10,000 pearls and a 25-foot-long train, one of the longest the world had ever seen.

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The More You Know

  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
  • Shakespeare's plays feature the word "love" about 10 times more than the word "hate."
  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
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