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TIL Empress Augusta and Otto von Bismarck were such rivals after the Revolution of 1848 that Augusta wrote an 18-page memorandum to her husband warning him not to appoint Bismarck and Bismarck even accused her of being a traitor who handed state secrets to the French embassy.

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