Ingenpedia:Did you know/January 23, 2021

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 * ... that the McDonnell Douglas DC-X experimental SSTO rocket (pictured) was launched twelve times but never flew higher than 3.14 km?
 * ... that Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, who succeeded C. P. E. Bach as the music director of Hamburg, edited an early publication of the The Well-Tempered Clavier in which the first prelude had an extra measure?
 * ... that U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed an expansion of New York Penn Station as a homage to the original station, where he had once shined shoes?
 * ... that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang?
 * ... that the defeat of the consul Gaius Porcius Cato by a Celtic tribe in 114 BC led to the last human sacrifices in ancient Rome?
 * ... that during the trial of Francis Gary Powers, Kansas radio station KBTO presented summaries of Radio Moscow broadcasts alongside other international reports?
 * ... that members of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve fought in the first naval action of the First World War?
 * ... that Doug Grimston insisted on a smoking ban at Queen's Park Arena and took financial responsibility for lost attendance?
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