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TIL Princess Sophie (of a minor German principality) married a Russian prince— soon after he was crowned emperor, she overthrew him and crowned herself Empress Catherine the Great. She annexed much of Poland (then ruled by her former lover), helped modernized Russia & started colonizing Alaska.

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