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TIL of Yasuke, an east african man who came into the service of Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga as a retainer in 1581 after being brought to Japan with Jesuit missionaries. When they first met Nobunaga had Yasuke's skin washed, believing it was ink only to realise that was Yasuke's natural skin colour

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