Explanation

• First computer program: Ada Lovelace’s algorithm (1843) for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
  • First widely used high-level programming language: FORTRAN (1957).
  • Machine Language: The earliest machine-level programming language, using binary 0s and 1s.

Explanation

• The United States established the U.S. Space Force on December 20, 2019.
• It became the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
• The Space Force operates under the Department of the Air Force, alongside the U.S. Air Force.
• Its main role is to organize and conduct military operations related to space and space-based capabilities.

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Explanation

• Ole Rømer was the first person to experimentally demonstrate that light has a finite speed in 1676.
• He used observations of Jupiter’s moon Io to estimate the speed of light.

Additional information:

• The modern accepted speed of light in vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s.

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Explanation

• Maldives is the smallest Muslim-majority country in the world by land area.

5 Smallest Muslim-Majority Countries by Area:

• Maldives — ~300 km²
• Bahrain — ~786 km²
• Comoros — ~1,861 km²
• Brunei — ~5,765 km²
• Palestine — ~6,020 km²

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5 Largest Muslim-Majority Countries by Area:

1. Indonesia — ~1.90 million km²
2. Kazakhstan — ~2.72 million km²
3. Algeria — ~2.38 million km²
4. Sudan — ~1.89 million km²
5. Libya — ~1.76 million km²

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Explanation

• Brain Virus was created in 1986.
• It was created by Pakistani brothers Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi.
• They were from Lahore, Pakistan.
• It is considered one of the first computer viruses for MS-DOS.