What was the most fascinating thing you learned from the last book you read?

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That it doesn't matter how powerful wizard you are, you'll still need to find a way to pay your rent.

About the African samurai, Yasuke.

I learned about him fairly recently too. The end of his life struck me as brutal.

My understanding is that no one actually knows what happened to him in the end.

I mean how everyone began to treat him in the absence of the emperor. I don't know, maybe I'm just used to Japan being an innately ethnically warm culture.