/*
Randomly display a fact
*/

function random_fact()
{
	var a = Math.floor(Math.random() * 147);
	
	switch (a)
	{
	case 0 :
	document.write("The average width of a tornado's funnel averages about 100 to 200 yards but may be as wide as a mile.");
	break;
	case 1 :
	document.write("The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph. ");
	break;
	case 2 :
	document.write("During a hurricane, 90% of the people who die end up dying from drowning.");
	break;
	case 3 :
	document.write("The coldest temperature ever recorded was a negative 126.9 degrees fahrenheit in Vostok Station, Antarctica.");
	break;
	case 4 :
	document.write("Between evaporation and falling as precipitation, a droplet of water may travel thousands of miles.");
	break;
	case 5 :
	document.write("The typical lifetime of a small cumulus cloud is between 10 to 15 minutes.");
	break;
	case 6 :
	document.write("A corn field of one acre gives of 4,000 gallons off water per day in evaporation.");
	break;
	case 7 :
	document.write("A molecule of water will stay in Earth's atmosphere for an average duration of 10-12 days.");
	break;
	case 8 :
	document.write("Snowflakes falling at 2-4 mph can take about 1 hr to reach the ground.");
	break;
	case 9 :
	document.write("For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the Earth.");
	break;
	case 10 :
	document.write("At any given time, on average there are about 1800 thunderstorms occurring on earth with 100 lightning strikes per second.");
	break;
	case 11 :
	document.write("Lightning bolts can travel 60 miles.");
	break;
	case 12 :
	document.write("A lightning bolt travels at about 14,000mph and brings 300,000 volts of electricity to the ground.");
	break;
	case 13 :
	document.write("The air located around a lightning bolt is heated to around 30,000 degrees Celsius. This is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.");
	break;
	case 14 :
	document.write("The chances of being struck by lightning is about one in three million.");
	break;
	case 15 :
	document.write("The largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States was nearly the size of a soccer ball. It was a 7-inch wide chunk of ice.");
	break;
	case 16 :
	document.write("Lightning sets about 10,000 forest fires every year in the United States.");
	break;
	case 17 :
	document.write("In one day a hurricane can release enough energy to supply all of the nation’s electrical needs for about six months.");
	break;
	case 18 :
	document.write("The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134 degrees F at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California.");
	break;
	case 19 :
	document.write("In 1899, it was so cold that the Mississippi River froze over its entire length.");
	break;
	case 20 :
	document.write("The United States uses an estimated 10 million tons of salt each year to melt ice on the roads.");
	break;
	case 21 :
	document.write("A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.");
	break;
	case 22 :
	document.write("An inch of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches of dry, powdery snow.");
	break;
	case 23 :
	document.write("Every year in the US, 625 people are struck by lightning.");
	break;
	case 24 :
	document.write("Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.");
	break;
	case 25 :
	document.write("A giant squid's eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.");
	break;
	case 26 :
	document.write("3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.");
	break;
	case 27 :
	document.write("The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.");
	break;
	case 28 :
	document.write("The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%.");
	break;
	case 29 :
	document.write("A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.");
	break;
	case 30 :
	document.write("Hummingbird's consume half of their weight in food daily.");
	break;
	case 31 :
	document.write("A cockroach can survive for 9 days without its head before dying of starvation.");
	break;
	case 32 :
	document.write("The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.");
	break;
	case 33 :
	document.write("Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.");
	break;
	case 34 :
	document.write("The 'crosshairs' of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960's.");
	break;
	case 35 :
	document.write("Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue.");
	break;
	case 36 :
	document.write("The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.");
	break;
	case 37 :
	document.write("Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living.");
	break;
	case 38 :
	document.write("A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.");
	break;
	case 39 :
	document.write("A snail can sleep for 3 years.");
	break;
	case 40 :
	document.write("There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.");
	break;
	case 41 :
	document.write("The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.");
	break;
	case 42 :
	document.write("A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.");
	break;
	case 43 :
	document.write("A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.");
	break;
	case 44 :
	document.write("In 1872, a virus epidemic killed a quarter of all the horses in the United States.");
	break;
	case 45 :
	document.write("A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.");
	break;
	case 46 :
	document.write("An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.");
	break;
	case 47 :
	document.write("Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.");
	break;
	case 48 :
	document.write("Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus, Oho Zoo in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.");
	break;
	case 49 :
	document.write("Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.");
	break;
	case 50 :
	document.write("Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.");
	break;
	case 51 :
	document.write("It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.");
	break;
	case 52 :
	document.write("Large kangaroos can cover over 30 feet with each jump.");
	break;
	case 53 :
	document.write("Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.");
	break;
	case 54 :
	document.write("On average, pigs live for about 15 years.");
	break;
	case 55 :
	document.write("Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.");
	break;
	case 56 :
	document.write("A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.");
	break;
	case 57 :
	document.write("Male seahorses produce offspring.");
	break;
	case 58 :
	document.write("Giraffes have no vocal cords.");
	break;
	case 59 :
	document.write("Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.");
	break;
	case 60 :
	document.write("An albatross can sleep while flying.");
	break;
	case 61 :
	document.write("A mosquito has 47 teeth.");
	break;
	case 62 :
	document.write("Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.");
	break;
	case 63 :
	document.write("The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.");
	break;
	case 64 :
	document.write("Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.");
	break;
	case 65 :
	document.write("The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.");
	break;
	case 66 :
	document.write("A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.");
	break;
	case 67 :
	document.write("If stomachs did not have a lining of mucus, your stomach would digest itself.");
	break;
	case 68 :
	document.write("There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.");
	break;
	case 69 :
	document.write("It takes about 60 seconds for a human blood cell to make a complete circuit of the body. ");
	break;
	case 70 :
	document.write("The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in his/her lifetime.");
	break;
	case 71 :
	document.write("1/15th of a pint of blood is pumped with every heartbeat.");
	break;
	case 72 :
	document.write("Humans share 98.4% of our DNA with chimps. In comparison, we share 70% of our DNA with a slug.");
	break;
	case 73 :
	document.write("The lightest baby to survive weighed a mere 283 grams.");
	break;
	case 74 :
	document.write("On average, women say 7,000 words per day while men manage just over 2,000 words.");
	break;
	case 75 :
	document.write("The human brain uses 20% of the body's energy but is only 2% of the body's weight.");
	break;
	case 76 :
	document.write("On average, humans lose 40-100 strands of hair per day.");
	break;
	case 77 :
	document.write("A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100mph.");
	break;
	case 78 :
	document.write("A cough can reach the speed of 60mph.");
	break;
	case 79 :
	document.write("The average person will drink about 16,000 gallons of water in his/her lifetime.");
	break;
	case 80 :
	document.write("It takes 17 muscles to smile while taking 43 muscles to frown.");
	break;
	case 81 :
	document.write("The human brain is composed of 75% water.");
	break;
	case 82 :
	document.write("Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.");
	break;
	case 83 :
	document.write("More germs are transferred while shaking hands compared to kissing.");
	break;
	case 84 :
	document.write("There are approximately 550 hairs in a person's eyebrow.");
	break;
	case 85 :
	document.write("The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.");
	break;
	case 86 :
	document.write("A person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in an average lifetime.");
	break;
	case 87 :
	document.write("The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.");
	break;
	case 88 :
	document.write("The number of eye blinks varies greatly from about 29 blinks each minute if you are talking to someone to only 4 blinks each minute if you are reading.");
	break;
	case 89 :
	document.write("The average human blinks 25 times per minute.");
	break;
	case 90 :
	document.write("A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the tip.");
	break;
	case 91 :
	document.write("Each second 10,000,000 cells die and are replaced in your body.");
	break;
	case 92 :
	document.write("Your liver performs over 500 functions in your body.");
	break;
	case 93 :
	document.write("The average person spends 1/3 of their lifetime sleeping.");
	break;
	case 94 :
	document.write("More germs are transferred when shaking hands than kissing.");
	break;
	case 95 :
	document.write("The average person (from western culture) consumes 10 liters of alcohol per year.");
	break;
	case 96 :
	document.write("Roughly 75% of people who play the radio in their car sing along to it.");
	break;
	case 97 :
	document.write("Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.");
	break;
	case 98 :
	document.write("Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.");
	break;
	case 99 :
	document.write("The human brain is composed of 75% water.");
	break;
	case 100 :
	document.write("70% of the composition of dust in your home is made up of shed human skin and hair.");
	break;
	case 101 :
	document.write("The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.");
	break;
	case 102 :
	document.write("One human hair can support 3kg.");
	break;
	case 103 :
	document.write("Humans are the only animals that cry tears and blush.");
	break;
	case 104 :
	document.write("It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.");
	break;
	case 105 :
	document.write("If the normal one hundred thousand hairs on a head were woven into a rope, it could support a weight of more than twelve tons.");
	break;
	case 106 :
	document.write("The fingernail grows about 1.5 inches per year.");
	break;
	case 107 :
	document.write("The total amount of skin covering an adult human weighs 6 lbs.");
	break;
	case 108 :
	document.write("The average person flexes the joints in their fingers 24 million times during a lifetime.");
	break;
	case 109 :
	document.write("Each person inhales about seven quarts of air every minute.");
	break;
	case 110 :
	document.write("On average, we breathe between 12 and 18 times a minute.");
	break;
	case 111 :
	document.write("The average guy will grow about 27 feet of hair out of his face during his lifetime.");
	break;
	case 112 :
	document.write("Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.");
	break;
	case 113 :
	document.write("The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts every day.");
	break;
	case 114 :
	document.write("One out of every hundred American citizens is color blind.");
	break;
	case 115 :
	document.write("An average person laughs about 15 times a day.");
	break;
	case 116 :
	document.write("The nearest known black hole is 1,600 light years (10 quadrillion miles/16 quadrillion kilometers) away.");
	break;
	case 117 :
	document.write("Saturn's rings are made up of particles of ice, dust and rock. Some particles are as small as grains of sand while others are much larger than skyscrapers.");
	break;
	case 118 :
	document.write("Jupiter is larger than 1,000 Earths.");
	break;
	case 119 :
	document.write("The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system that was first detected in the early 1600's.");
	break;
	case 120 :
	document.write("Comet Hale-Bopp is putting out approximately 250 tons of gas and dust per second. This is about 50 times more than most comets produce.");
	break;
	case 121 :
	document.write("The Sun looks 1600 times fainter from Pluto than it does from the Earth.");
	break;
	case 122 :
	document.write("There is a supermassive black hole right in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy that is 4 million times the mass of the Sun.");
	break;
	case 123 :
	document.write("Halley's Comet appears about every 76 years.");
	break;
	case 124 :
	document.write("The orbits of most asteroids lie partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.");
	break;
	case 125 :
	document.write("Asteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the formation of our Solar System (More than 4 billion years ago!).");
	break;
	case 126 :
	document.write("Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter.");
	break;
	case 127 :
	document.write("The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the Earth only once every 100,000 years on average.");
	break;
	case 128 :
	document.write("Some large asteroids even have their own moon.");
	break;
	case 129 :
	document.write("Near-Earth asteriods have orbits that cross the Earth's orbit. These could potentially impact the Earth.");
	break;
	case 130 :
	document.write("There are over 20 million observable meteors per day.");
	break;
	case 131 :
	document.write("Only one or two meteorites per day reach the surface of Earth.");
	break;
	case 132 :
	document.write("The largest found meteorite was found in Hoba, Namibia. It weighed 60 tons.");
	break;
	case 133 :
	document.write("The typical size of a meteor is about one cubic centimeter, which is equivalent to the size of a sugar cube.");
	break;
	case 134 :
	document.write("Each day, Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tons of material.");
	break;
	case 135 :
	document.write("There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe.");
	break;
	case 136 :
	document.write("The largest galaxies contain nearly 400 billion stars.");
	break;
	case 137 :
	document.write("The risk of a falling meteorite striking a human occurs once every 9,300 years.");
	break;
	case 138 :
	document.write("A piece of a neutron star the size of a pin point would way 1 million tons.");
	break;
	case 139 :
	document.write("Europa, Jupiter's moon, is completely covered in ice.");
	break;
	case 140 :
	document.write("Light reflecting off the moon takes 1.2822 seconds to reach Earth.");
	break;
	case 141 :
	document.write("There has only been one satellite destroyed by a meteor, it was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.");
	break;
	case 142 :
	document.write("The International Space Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth.");
	break;
	case 143 :
	document.write("The Earth orbits the Sun at 66,700mph.");
	break;
	case 144 :
	document.write("Venus spins in the opposite direction compared to the Earth and most other planets. This means that the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East.");
	break;
	case 145 :
	document.write("The Moon is moving away from the Earth at about 34cm per year.");
	break;
	case 146 :
	document.write("The Sun, composed mostly of helium and hydrogen, has a surface temperature of 6000 degrees Celsius.");
	break;
	case 147 :
	document.write("A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.");
	break;
	}

}