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else if (RandomNo < 400) {document.write(" Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, and the first execution by lethal gas took place in February, 1924. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 500) {document.write(" Incan soldiers used to eat freeze-dried potatoes when they were on a march. The Incans would leave the food outside to freeze overnight, then thaw them out and stomp on them to remove the excess water. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 600) {document.write(" The first coin minted in the United States was a silver dollar. It was issued on October 15, 1794. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 650) {document.write(" More than 20,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing in action in the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. This was the bloodiest one-day fight during the Civil War. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 750) {document.write(" On Dec. 10th 1901 the first Nobel prizes were awarded. Literature - Rene Sully-Prudhomme; Physiology - Emil von Behring; Chemistly - Jacobus van't Hoff; Physics - Wilhelm Roentgen; Peace - Jean Henri Dunant Frederic Passy. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" In the year 498 B.C., in the city of Chung-tu, crime ceased to happen with the naming of a new Minister of Crime. Legend has it that nobody wanted to commit a crime because everyone idolized the new minister, someone by the name of Confucius. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" English traders introduced opium to China to create a market for the drug. They then traded silver for opium to help pay other Chinese traders for their tea. ");}
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