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else if (RandomNo < 250) {document.write(" Eddie Arcaro, one of the greatest jockeys in horse race history, rode 250 losers before he won his first race. Ultimately, Arcaro won 4,779 races - including five Derby winners, six in the Preakness, and six in the Belmont Stakes, on such famous horses as Whirlaway, Citation, and Kelso. ");}
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else if (RandomNo < 350) {document.write(" NASCAR stands for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 400) {document.write(" During the baseball rivalries between the two major leagues in the 1890s, the Pittsburgh Nationals took advantage of a technicality and signed a player away from another club. The Nationals' president, J. Palmer O'Neill, was called J. 'Pirate' O'Neill, and his club became the Pittsburgh Pirates. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" There are 24 known 'perfect' numbers. These are numbers that equal the sum of all its divisors except itself. For instance, six - the lowest of these numbers - is divisible by 1, 2, or 3 and 1+2+3=6. The largest of the known 'perfect' numbers has 12,003 digits. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 500) {document.write(" Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 550) {document.write(" A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 600) {document.write(" It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 650) {document.write(" On May 25, 1957, two men with the same name scored holes in one on the same golf course.  Edward Chapman got a hole in one on the eighth hole at Richmond, Surrey in England.  Later that day, Edward Chapman hit one from from the sixth tee. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 700) {document.write(" If you had 15 cubes numbered 1 to 15 and you tried to line them up in every possible sequence, and if you made a change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do it. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 750) {document.write(" Paul Hornung holds the NFL record for the most points in a single season. He scored 176 points in 1960. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 800) {document.write(" In 1987, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers became the first NHL goalie to score a goal. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" The minimum number of darts that need to be thrown to complete a single in, double out game of 501 is nine. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" The only father and son to hit back-to-back home runs in a major league baseball game: Ken Griffey, Jr., and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., both of the Seattle Mariners in a game against the California Angels on September 14th, 1990. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" The longest recorded gloved boxing match took place in 1893. Andy Bowen and Jack Burke fought for more than 7 hours. After 110 rounds, the fight was declared a draw because both Bowen and Burke were too exhausted to continue. ");}
else                     {document.write(" In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush. ");}
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