The League of Nations was one of the great experiments in supranational organization of the 20th century and the predecessor in several important respects of the United Nations.

It is a requirement for astronomers to know how to code. They actually use a variety of programming languages to process the measurements that they make, and also to develop simulations of astrophysical phenomena.

Talking about the moon… Margaret Hamilton, an American computer scientist and systems engineer, wrote the computer code that helped save the Apollo moon landing mission.

The first programmer in the entire world was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace and she was born in 1815. It is believed by some people that Lovelace published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine.

In fact, a lot of modern programming languages are based mainly on “C”. for example, C++, C*, Perl, and Java.

However, there was a predecessor language called “B”. the language was created and written in 1969 by Ken Thompson, a Turing Award-winning computer scientist.

In Colorado, USA, there is still an active volcano. It last erupted about the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.

One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.

A horse’s canter is a 3-beat gait. On the second beat, opposite front and rear legs hit the ground at the same time. After the third beat is a “rest”, or suspension, when all three legs are off the ground.

The largest living organism in the world is a fungus. It is in Oregon, covering 2,200 acres and is still growing.