Jules Léotard invented…you guessed it, the leotard. He was a French acrobat and performed the first flying trapeze act in 1859. The tight-fitting leotard was created to show off his muscles.

Get this – Diana was homeschooled until she was 9 years old! Back then, it was normal for upper-class children to be tutored at home. It was not until her parents got divorced that she started to attend a school in Norfolk.

Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch, was given a shoddy canvas tent for a dressing room. She used to sneak into Good Witch Billie Burke’s heavenly dressing room sometimes. Hamilton said that it was entirely pink and blue – including the peppermints on the table!