- Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
- Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
- Dr. W.S. Halstead was the first to use rubber gloves during surgery in 1890.
- Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
- Draughts is older than chess.
- Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool.
- Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.
- Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
- Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.
- Due to the amount of violent acts shown "Red Dawn" was the first movie to be handed the PG-13 rating.
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