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function get_random(maxNum)
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function getaQuote()
{
 var maxQuotes=47;
 var whichQuote=get_random(maxQuotes);
 whichQuote--;
var quote=new Array(maxQuotes)
  quote[0]="All the people on earth, working day and night, for 1 million years could not arrange 5 letter\-blocks into all possible combinations";
  quote[1]="1 \/ 243 = 0.00<b>4</b>11<b>5</b>22<b>6</b>33<b>7</b>44<b>8</b>55<b>9</b>...";
  quote[2]="If you change a five-dollar bill into all the possible ways \(cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves and dollars\) it would require: 2,305,843,009,213,693,951 different changes";
  quote[3]="2 is the first and the last even <b>prime</b> number";
  quote[4]="127 is the sum of seven powers of 2:<br>2<sup>0</sup>+2<sup>1</sup>+2<sup>2</sup>+2<sup>3</sup>+2<sup>4</sup>+2<sup>5</sup>=127";
  quote[5]="1+<b>2</b>+1=<b>2</b><sup>2</sup><br>1+2+<b>3</b>+2+1=<b>3</b><sup>2</sup><br>1+2+3+<b>4</b>+3+2+1=<b>4</b><sup>2</sup>, etc...";
  quote[6]="1+3+1=1<sup>2</sup>+2<sup>2</sup><br>1+3+5+3+1=2<sup>2</sup>+3<sup>2</sup><br>1+3+5+7+5+3+1=3<sup>2</sup>+4<sup>2</sup>, etc...";
  quote[7]="0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9<br>9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0<br>is a mnemonic trick to remember your 9x table";
  quote[8]="153 is the sum of the first five factorials:<br>1\!+2\!+3\!+4\!+5\!=153";
  quote[9]="Recreation with the 8x table\:<br><nobr>1x8=8 \(<b>8</b>\)</nobr>; <nobr>2x8=16 \(1+6=<b>7</b>\)</nobr>; <nobr>3x8=24 \(2+4=<b>6</b>\)</nobr>; <nobr>4x8=32 \(3+2=<b>5</b>\)</nobr>; <nobr>5x8=40 \(4+0=<b>4</b>\)</nobr>; <nobr>6x8=48 \(4+8=12, 1+2=<b>3</b>\)</nobr>; <nobr>7x8=56 \(5+6=11, 1+1=<b>2</b>\)</nobr>...";
  quote[10]="The 26 letters of the alphabet can make 40,329x10<sup>22</sup> different combinations";
  quote[11]="<b>ETAISON</b> is not a French word, it\'s just the frequency order of use of the 7 most recurrent letters";
  quote[12]="In English, there are only 3 words which end in \'ceed\':<br>PROCEED, EXCEED, SUCCEED";
  quote[13]="The word \'zero\' (0) was coined by Fibonacci. He transformed the Arabic word <i>sifr</i> into Italian equivalent <b>zefiro</b> (shortened in <b>zero</b> afterwards)";
  quote[14]="The word <b>oscillation</b> comes from the Latin verb <i>oscillare</i> \'to swing\', supposed to be from <i>oscilla</i> \'little faces\', lit. \'little mouths\', small masks of open-mouthed Bacchus hung up as a charm in vineyards to swing in the breeze...";
  quote[15]="The chance of being born on Leap Day is about 1 in 1461";
  quote[16]="The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven";
  quote[17]="A square piece of paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times";
  quote[18]="One can split a pie into 8 pieces with three straight cuts";
  quote[19]="In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2";
  quote[20]="If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the vowel \'A\'?<br>Answer: 1 thousand";
  quote[21]="An English billionaire is always 1,000 times richer than an American billionaire";
  quote[22]="<b>2 + 11 - 1 = 12...</b><br>two + eleven = twoeleven<br>tw<font color=\'red\'>o</font>el<font color=\'red\'>e</font>ve<font color=\'red\'>n</font> - <font color=\'red\'>one</font> = twelve!";
  quote[23]="Any one of us is only about <b>6 acquaintances</b> away from anyone else in the world";
  quote[24]="It would take <b>437,000 full moons</b> to make a bright day\!";
  quote[25]="The Latin or Roman Alphabet is mainly of Etruscan origin. However, the letter <b>G</b> was created by the Roman teacher Spurius Carvilius as a modification of C. It was not until the Middle Ages that the letters <b>J</b>, <b>U</b> and <b>W</b> were added\!";
  quote[26]="<b>Napoleon Buonaparte</b> was born to Italian parents on Corsica the same year this island became French property \(1769\). Although he never learned to spell French correctly or to speak it without a broad Italian accent, he became the Emperor of France\!";
  quote[27]="In 2002, the US Congress officially recognized that the Italian inventor <b>Antonio Meucci</b> is to be credited for the invention of the <u>telephone</u>, and not Alexander G. Bell, as so far claimed";
  quote[28]="The names of the <u>3 Wise Monkeys</u> are: <b>Mizaru</b> \(See no evil\), <b>Mikazaru</b> \(Hear no evil\), and <b>Mazaru</b> \(Speak no evil\)";
  quote[29]="Due to earth\'s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15 Kilometers";
  quote[30]="Before the year 1000, the word \'she\' did not exist in the English language. This word appeared only in the 12th century. \'She\' probably derived from the Old English feminine \'seo\', the Viking word for feminine reference";
  quote[31]="The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is caused by a chemical called <a href=\"http:\//www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/hottopics\/chocolate\/addictive2.shtml\" target=\"_self\"><strong>anadamide<\/strong><\/a>, a neurotransmitter which also is produced naturally in the brain";
  quote[32]="A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic poles";
  quote[33]="An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1,7 million years\!";
  quote[34]="The average human body contains enough carbon to make 900 pencils";
  quote[35]="1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside\-down and rightside\-up and appear the same. The next year with the same properties is 6009";
  quote[36]="The <b>Music Tree</b> is a Brazilian tree species called \'pernambuco\' whose wood is used to make bows for violins, violas, cellos and basses";
  quote[37]="Fifty\-six seconds after 12\:34 on July 8, 1990, the time was <b>12</b>\:<b>34</b>\:<b>56</b>,<b>7</b>\/<b>8</b>\/<b>90</b>\!";
  quote[38]="<b>Quest</b>, a 3D geometrical puzzle designed and built by Joe Pieczynski, stood 144\.78 cm tall, 133\.35 cm in diameter and weighed 229\.51 kg when it was unveiled on October 25, 1998, at Austin, Texas. It is currently the world\'s largest mechanical puzzle";
  quote[39]="The largest commercially available jigsaw puzzle is manufactured by Ravensburger, Germany. The record\-breaking puzzle contains 18\,000 pieces and measures 2\.76x1\.92 m. The image depicted is of four ancient world maps";
  quote[40]="The same side of the moon always faces the earth\! But It was different once upon a time. Billions of years ago the moon was much closer to the earth than it is now and rotated much faster, so that over time the entire lunar surface could be seen from earth";
  quote[41]="<b>Retinol</b> is a fat\-soluble antioxidant vitamin which is very beneficial to humans. It is considered to be essential for proper vision and bone growth. Retinal is actually the animal form of Vitamin A";
  quote[42]="37 is a \'psychologically random number\', that is a number which is chosen more often when someone is asked to pick a number \(usually this kind of number is odd and don't end in 5...\). In fact, 37 appears disproportionately in television and movies";
  quote[43]="\'To look\' in Chinese is written by placing the character for \'hand\' over that for \'eye\'";
  quote[44]="The full chemical name for caffeine is 1,3,7\-trimethylxanthine and its chemical formula is C8H10N4O2. When coffee is roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas";
  quote[45]="The <a href=\"http:\//en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yazidi\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Yazidis<\/strong><\/a> \- adherents of a Middle Eastern religion with ancient origins \- consider eating lettuce taboo";
  quote[46]="Square numbers only end in 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9. The iterative sum of the digits of any square number reduces always to 1, 4, 7 or 9. For instance, 123<sup>2</sup> = 15129, 1 + 5 + 1 + 2 + 9 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9";

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