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TIL Julie D'Aubigny was a famous 17th century French opera singer who once entered a convent just so she could have sex with a nun. She also had a habit of seducing women at parties, which would lead their husbands to challenge her to a duel. She was an expert duelist and killed 10 men like this.

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