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* Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was an ophthalmologist and physician by trade.

* Between Civil War battles, brigadier General Daniel Butterfield worked with his bugler and wrote the military tune "Taps."

* All mammals once had a common ancestor. Dogs started becoming an independent species about 95 million years ago. Mice and humans both branched off about 87 million years ago. Still, because of their short life spans, mice evolve more quickly, so dogs and humans are more closely related genetically.

* Not that we suggest looking too closely, but the very tip of a rattle on a ...

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