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document.write("<font face=arial,helvetica size=-1 color=#FF0000><b>Space and Science Trivia</b></font>");
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else if (RandomNo < 650) {document.write(" Polaris is the closest visible star to true north and is thus referred to as the North Star. By sometime around the year 2100, the wobble of the Earth's axis will slowly begin pointing the North Pole away from Polaris. By the year 14,000 A.D., the new North Star will be Vega. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 800) {document.write(" The deepest land point on Earth is the area around the Dead Sea in Israel.  The Dead Sea is located 1,312 below sea level. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" Whitcomb L. Judson, the inventor of the zipper, originally intended his invention to save people the trouble of buttoning and unbuttoning their shoes every day.  He named it the 'Clasp locker and unlocker for shoes.'. ");}
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