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TIL That after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington went on to seduce two of Napoleon’s former mistresses and was presented Napoleon’s sword and a saucy painting of his sister at the war’s end. One mistress is quoted as having preferred the Duke in bed.

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