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TIL Lola Montez, an Irish woman who passed herself off as Spanish, had affairs with Franz Liszt, Alexandre Dumas & the king of Bavaria (who made her countess, triggering a popular uprising and his own abdication), and later lived in Australia and the US Far West, all before dying at 40

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