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TIL ‘Jersey Shore’ is known in Japan as 'Macaroni Rascals’
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Short answer: Pigments offer protection
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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.
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TIL There are Apple stores in China that are completely counterfeit
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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.
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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"