The Life of Doris Day, America’s Sweetheart

Making A Name

As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s.

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The More You Know

  • The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys."
  • The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
  • The horse on the Wyoming license plate is named Steamboat.
  • But the loudest animal relative to its size is a water bug.
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