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TIL of Francine Gottfried, a woman who was famous briefly in the 1960s because crowds of men would stare at and harass her on her way to work. The crowd peaked at 10,000 and required a police escort

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x6AXg TIL: During his opening of Japan to the America's through a show of force, Matthew C. Perry, during the signing event, followed the kabuki play with US military band music... and a blackface minstrelsy. He got $20,000 at the time for his work in Japan.
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