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TIL: Graca Machel, is the only woman in the world’s history to become the first lady of 2 different countries. She was married to the former president of Mozambique, Samora Machel, in 1975 who was killed in a plane crash in 1986. In 1998 she married Nelson Mandela former South African president.

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