#105: 11 Daily trivia facts

Lactose-intolerant people, listen up: quite often, the natural latex condoms contain dairy products such as casein. Tweet This

In 2017, a test proved that the sports car Audi TT accelerates faster when towed by Tesla Model X, rather than when using its own engine and wheels. Tweet This

Until 2011, many chickens in the USA were fed arsenic. Tweet This

In early 2018, Jack Robison, a judge in Texas, USA, interrupted the jury saying that God told him the defendant was not guilty. The jury nevertheless returned a “guilty” verdict. Tweet This

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Some tattoo inks are actually produced with animal products, such as bone char, glycerine from animal fat, gelatine from hooves, or shellac from beetles. Tweet This

The carat is a unit of mass equal to 0.2 g (0.007 oz), used for measuring gemstones. Maybe you have never thought about that, but the carat is a metric unit with no imperial equivalent. Tweet This

Nobuo Fujita was an officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from a submarine aircraft carrier during World War II. He remains the only pilot in history to have bombed (in 1942) the contiguous USA during wartime. Tweet This

The Rosenbergs are so far the only US citizens executed in peacetime for treason. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the early 1950s for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Tweet This

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At the end of the American Civil War, some 20,000 Confederates fled to Brazil, where slavery was legal and formed a community known as “Confederados”. Tweet This

Major-General Chaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel in the period 1983-1993. Worldwide, he is so far the only head of a military intelligence service to have become a head of state. Tweet This

Only one from the five French overseas collectivities, Saint Martin, is part of the European Union and therefore can vote to elect members of the European Parliament. Tweet This