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TIL ‘Jersey Shore’ is known in Japan as 'Macaroni Rascals’

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9YYXG Short answer: Pigments offer protection
ngOP TIL that in 1969 Mick Jagger wrote to artist M.C. Escher asking him to provide an image for a Rolling Stones album cover. Escher turned him down. He’d never heard of the Stones. He’d never heard of Jagger and he objected to Jagger addressing him by his first name.
A6Xw TIL There are Apple stores in China that are completely counterfeit
xVmQD TIL about the Biscari Massacre, a WWII war crime where a United States army sergeant murdered 37 POWS in cold blood. His life sentence was commuted and he died in 1974.
XEl6X TIL that tiramisù, the Italian dessert, was meant to be a natural aphrodisiac as it was invented in a brothel and it literally means "pick me up"