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else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" King Henry III of France, Louis XIV of France, and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 500) {document.write(" When Mount Vesuvius erupted in in the year 79, over 2,000 citizens of Pompeii ran into their cellars to wait until everything had ended. Excavators found them still there 1,800 years later. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 600) {document.write(" Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattooed on their armpits. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 700) {document.write(" Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern history that a nation's laws applied equally to all citizens. Napoleon's 7 laws are so impressive that by 1960 more than 70 governments had patterned their own laws after them or used them verbatim. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" Dec 7, 1941 was also the morning Nazi's at Kulmhof death camp in Poland, gassed the first group of the Holocaust's 6 million martyred. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" Dr. Samuel Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Booth (Lincoln's assassin), and whose shame created the expression of ignominy - 'his name is Mudd'. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. ");}
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