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TIL Emperor Justin of the Eastern Roman Empire was an illiterate peasant before becoming Emperor and his wife Lupicina was a freed slave. His nephew and future emperor Justinian was also a peasant and his wife Theodora was a former child prostitute. Justinian’s reign is considered a golden age.

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