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else if (RandomNo < 150) {document.write(" Of the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 200) {document.write(" Pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game in 1944. Nuxhall, the youngest pitcher in major league baseball, was only 15 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he pitched that game against the St. Louis Cardinals. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 250) {document.write(" In 1987, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers became the first NHL goalie to score a goal. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 300) {document.write(" Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 350) {document.write(" A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 400) {document.write(" The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" The first pick (by Eagles) in the first NFL draft in 1935, was Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago. He never played in the league. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 500) {document.write(" The World Bank estimates that Mexico owes the most money of any country in the world.  They have $165,743,000,000 in external debt.  Brazil is second with $159,139,000,000 in debt. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 550) {document.write(" The first Super Bowl was broadcasted by two networks: CBS and NBC. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 600) {document.write(" Moses Malone was the first basketball player to go directly from high school to a professional American team. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 650) {document.write(" The first Soccer World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930 and attracted 13 competing countries. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 700) {document.write(" When pure gold is beaten with a mallet and made into gold leaf, the average thickness runs between 1/200,000th to 1/250,000th of an inch. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 750) {document.write(" The first triple jump in figure skating competition was performed by Dick Button in 1952. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 800) {document.write(" The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" If the average person had started counting the moment they were born and continued counting, without stopping, until they turned 65 years old, they still would not have counted to a billion. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" The song Take Me Out to the Ballgame was written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" The United States produces 3,145,892,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity every year. That's over three times the amount of the second-highest producing country, Russia. ");}
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