Did you know fact of the day looks at the most shocking, interesting and funny facts across the world. Photo: Pixabay

Did you know? Fact of the Day – Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Impress your family and friends with these random – yet fascinating – facts in The South African’s ‘Did you know?’ feature.

by Shyleen Choruma

14-03-2023 07:45

in Offbeat

Did you know fact of the day looks at the most shocking, interesting and funny facts across the world. Photo: Pixabay

Impress your family and friends with these random – yet fascinating – facts in The South African’s ‘Did you know?’ feature.

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Did you know: The first successful heart transplant was in a Cape Town hospital

It was done by Dr Christiaan Barnard on 3 December 1967. Additionally, the CAT (Computed Axial Tomography) Scan, isused in hospitals to produce 3D images of the human body’s internal structures to detect disease, was developed by South African physicist Allan Cormack and British colleague Godfrey Hounsfield. They shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1979.