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else if (RandomNo < 400) {document.write(" Robert William Thomson, a Scottish engineer, invented the first rubber tire in 1845. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" Close to two million people who go to hospitals in the United States for one ailment wind up catching another. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 650) {document.write(" The single highest temperature ever recorded in U.S. history was 134 degrees Fahrenheit.  It was recorded in Greenland Ranch, CA on July 10, 1913.  The lowest recorded temperature was minus 80 degrees on January 23, 1971 in Prospect Creek, AK. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 700) {document.write(" The brightest star in history was the supernova of 1054, which formed the Crab Nebula.  It was brighter than Venus and bright enough to be seen in daylight and to cast a shadow at night.  We know about it through the astronomic records of China and Japan. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" Aspirin was the first drug offered as a water-soluble tablet in 1900. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" Marie and Irene Curie are the only mother and daughter to win Nobel prizes with their husbands. Marie and Pierre Curie won the Physics prize in 1903. Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie won in 1935 for chemistry. Incidentally, Marie Curie also won the 1911 Nobel Prize for chemistry. ");}
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