We show that the algebra of commuting Hamiltonians of the homogeneous XXX Heisenberg model has simple spectrum on the subspace of singular vectors of the tensor product of two-dimensional $gl_2$-modules. As a byproduct we show that there exist exactly $binom {n}{l}-binom{n}{l-1}$ two-dimensional vector subspaces $V subset C[u]$ with a basis $f,gin V$ such that $deg f = l, deg g = n-l+1$ and $f(u)g(u-1) - f(u-1)g(u) = (u+1)^n$.