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Leonardo da Vinci might be on the new euro. The European Central Bank shortlisted him for the €100 note in the currency’s first redesign since 2002, alongside Maria Callas on the €5 and Beethoven on the €10 — and there’s a vote. So it’s kind of like Eurovision, but with a lot more money at stake.

The Colonel Sanders archive is up for auction — briefcase, Bible, bow ties, and a 1964 planner scribbled with spice blends, all preserved by one Kentucky family since 1974. His whole estate is on the block too, including the Victorian hall where he hosted franchisees. Finger-lickin’, with provenance.

A man spent 50 years building a staircase to the stars. Charles Ross, now 88, has been carving “Star Axis” into a New Mexico mesa since 1976. The $10 million project will have 147 steps aligned to the North Star and be done by winter. Hopefully they don’t get hit with snow.

Everyone’s wearing dancing shoes now — jazz and ballet flats have swept the runways from Celine to Miu Miu, and Repetto’s 1970s “Zizi” back from the dead. Meanwhile NYC Ballet’s shoe colorist got a documentary for 15 years spent hand-tinting pointe shoes to match every dancer’s skin. If all the world’s a stage, why not try some fancy footwork?

Coca-Cola reached for nostalgia, grabbed Marlboro. The warm, familiar throwback landed a little closer to a 1960s ad for smoking. No wonder they call these things “fridge cigs.”