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var delay = 5000; //set delay between message change (in miliseconds)
var maxsteps=30; // number of steps to take to change from start color to endcolor
var stepdelay=40; // time in miliseconds of a single step
//**Note: maxsteps*stepdelay will be total time in miliseconds of fading effect
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var endcolor=new Array(0,0,0); // end color (red, green, blue)
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fcontent[0]="“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.";
fcontent[1]="“Lollipop” is the longest word typed with the right hand.";
fcontent[2]="“Dreamt” is the only English word ending in ‘mt’.";
fcontent[3]="Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.";
fcontent[4]="Every second, Americans collectively eat 100 lbs. of chocolate.";
fcontent[5]="“Typewriter” is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. ";
fcontent[6]="A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.";
fcontent[7]="A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.";
fcontent[8]="A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.";
fcontent[9]="More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby.";
fcontent[10]="February 1865 is the only month recorded in history not to have a full moon.";
fcontent[11]="The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.";
fcontent[12]="The oldest known recording of the human voice was a French folk song recorded in 1860.";
fcontent[13]="Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.";
fcontent[14]="The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.";
fcontent[15]="More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.";
fcontent[16]="The modern toothbrush we know today was invented in 1938.";
fcontent[17]="Black eyed peas are actually beans.";
fcontent[18]="Some species of snails can remain inactive for years.";
fcontent[19]="Many oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.";
fcontent[20]="You can roughly determine air temperature by counting cricket chirps.";
fcontent[21]="Most of the fiber found in fruit comes from the skin.";
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var fwidth='250px'; //set scroller width
var fheight='50px'; //set scroller height
var fadelinks=1; //should links inside scroller content also fade like text? 0 for no, 1 for yes.
///No need to edit below this line/////////////////
var ie4=document.all&&!document.getElementById;
var DOM2=document.getElementById;
var faderdelay=0;
var index=0;
/*Rafael Raposo edited function*/
//function to change content
function changecontent(){
if (index>=fcontent.length)
index=0
if (DOM2){
document.getElementById("fscroller").style.color="rgb("+startcolor[0]+", "+startcolor[1]+", "+startcolor[2]+")"
document.getElementById("fscroller").innerHTML=begintag+fcontent[index]+closetag
if (fadelinks)
linkcolorchange(1);
colorfade(1, 15);
}
else if (ie4)
document.all.fscroller.innerHTML=begintag+fcontent[index]+closetag;
index++
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// colorfade() partially by Marcio Galli for Netscape Communications. ////////////
// Modified by Dynamicdrive.com
function linkcolorchange(step){
var obj=document.getElementById("fscroller").getElementsByTagName("A");
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newcolor[i] = startcolor[i]-(Math.round((diff/maxsteps))*step);
} else {
newcolor[i] = startcolor[i]+(Math.round((Math.abs(diff)/maxsteps))*step);
}
}
return ("rgb(" + newcolor[0] + ", " + newcolor[1] + ", " + newcolor[2] + ")");
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if (ie4||DOM2)
document.write('');
if (window.addEventListener){
window.addEventListener("load", changecontent, false)
}else if (window.attachEvent){
window.attachEvent("onload", changecontent)
} else if (document.getElementById){
window.onload=changecontent
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messages[1]="Walt Disney was afraid of mice.";
messages[2]="There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.";
messages[3]="Honey is often used as a center for golf balls.";
messages[4]="Pigeons have excellent eyesight.";
messages[5]="American car horns beep in the tone of F. ";
messages[6]="A pregnant goldfish is called a ?twit.?";
messages[7]="The electric chair was invented by a dentist.";
messages[8]="Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.";
messages[9]="There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty?s crown.";
messages[10]="Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.";
messages[11]="James Buchanan is the only president to remain a bachelor.";
messages[12]="Pennsylvania is the first state to list its website URL on a license plate.";
messages[13]="A yoctosecond is one septillionth of a second.";
messages[14]="The back of the human hand is the opisthenar.";
messages[15]="Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote.";
messages[16]="The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.";
messages[17]="Bring Dawn Wash & Toss™ on your next camping trip to conveniently clean pots and pans after cooking over an open fire. ";
messages[18]="The honeybee is the only known insect that makes food fit for human consumption.";
messages[19]="There are 108 stitches on a Major League baseball.";
messages[20]="The dot above a lowercase ?i? is called a tittle.";
messages[21]="Dawn® has been used to clean up greasy highway messes, including spills of congealing animal fat and baking dough.";
messages[22]="August is the most popular month for human births.";
messages[23]="We all know that dogs bark and cats meow, but did you know apes gibber and beetles drone?";
messages[24]="The Canadian province of Alberta was named after Queen Victoria?s fourth daughter, Princess Louise Caroline Alberta.";
messages[25]="Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch TV for three hours.";
messages[26]="The fear of atomic energy is nucleomituphobia.";
messages[27]="Before Cascade Complete?, more than two-thirds of Americans rinsed their dishes clean before putting them into the dishwasher.";
messages[28]="The first electronic mail, or email, was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.";
messages[29]="Strawberries are actually part of the rose family.";
messages[30]="Flamingos turn pink due to their shrimp consumption.";
messages[31]="Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.";
messages[32]="Elephants are the only mammals that can?t jump.";
messages[33]="?Lethologica? describes the forgetfulness of words.";
messages[34]="The names of all the continents end in the same letter they start with.";
messages[35]="You shiver when you are cold because shivering increases muscular action?thus raising body temperature. ";
messages[36]="Don?t forget Mr. Clean® when you wash your car. Use it on the hubcaps, headlights, windows, fenders, and vinyl interior.";
messages[37]="A cosmic, or galactic, year is the length of time it takes the sun to complete one revolution around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. ";
messages[38]="Mona Lisa, Lisa Gherardini, is painted without eyebrows. ";
messages[39]="?Knubble? is the Yiddish term for garlic.";
messages[40]="The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1934. ";
messages[41]="Missouri and Tennessee both touch eight other states. ";
messages[42]="By the age of 70, more than half of your taste buds will be gone. ";
messages[43]="The full name of Dorothy, the little girl from The Wizard of Oz, is Dorothy Gale. ";
messages[44]="Astronaut Alan Shepard hit a golf ball while on the moon on February 6, 1971. ";
messages[45]="Big Ben is actually not a clock, but the clocktower bell. It weighs more than 13 tons.";
messages[46]="A close French translation of ?potpourri? is ?putrid? or ?rotten? pot. ";
messages[47]="The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.";
messages[48]="The leaves of the rhubarb are poisonous. ";
messages[49]="Braille was invented in 1829 by Louis Braille of France. ";
messages[50]="The optimal temperature for making toast is 310? F. ";
messages[51]="Snow is not frozen rain. Snowflakes change directly from water vapor into snow. ";
messages[52]="Use a Swiffer? cloth to clean up the inside of a pet cage.";
messages[53]="?Flauner? is another name for a candy maker or confectioner.";
messages[54]="It took Robert Louis Stevenson just six days to write Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. ";
messages[55]="Emmy, the television award, is named after a TV camera: the image orthicon camera, or ?Immy.?";
messages[56]="Swiffer Mitts? are made of one simple component?a Mitt designed to fit your hand and easily clean anywhere you can reach.";
messages[57]="The highest mountain peak in Canada is Logan, measuring more than 5791 meters. ";
messages[58]="Cher?s full name is Cherilyn Sarkissian LaPier. ";
messages[59]="An ostrich egg weighs approximately 3 pounds and takes about 40 minutes to hard-boil. ";
messages[60]="Buttercups were used in ancient times to try to cure insanity. ";
messages[61]="Mexican jumping beans jump because there is a caterpillar inside. ";
messages[62]="Rainbows can only be seen in the morning, late afternoon, or night, when the sun is at a certain distance above the horizon. ";
messages[63]="The white part of your fingernail is called the lunule.";
messages[64]="The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward and hover in one spot. ";
messages[65]="The average cat usually has about 12 whiskers on each side of its face. ";
messages[66]="It was illegal for women to practice law in America until 1872. ";
messages[67]="Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye. ";
messages[68]="Almonds are in the same family as peaches.";
messages[69]="The Lincoln Tunnel is 2.5 miles long and opened in 1937.";
messages[70]="A 10-gallon hat holds approximately three quarts.";
messages[71]="Saturn is 888 million miles from the sun, and a day there lasts a little more than 10 hours.";
messages[72]="The largest single organ in the body is the skin. There are 2,800 square inches of skin on the average adult.";
messages[73]="The first Ferris wheel debuted in Chicago in June 1893.";
messages[74]="A Welsh rabbit is not a bunny, but a dish made with bread, cheese, and beer.";
messages[75]="A good batch of cider should blend different types of apples.";
messages[76]="Fish can drown.";
messages[77]="The last king of Babylon was Belshazzar.";
messages[78]="Most of a bird?s bones are hollow to reduce weight and help with flight.";
messages[79]="The Boeing 737 jet is nicknamed ?Fat Albert.? ";
messages[80]="Taal Volcano in the Philippines is the smallest volcano in the world. ";
messages[81]="There is an all-garlic restaurant in Stockholm and London that offers garlic ice cream.";
messages[82]="Chewing gum burns 11 calories an hour.";
messages[83]="One of the longer words in the dictionary is floccinaucinihilipilification, which translates ?the act of estimating something as worthless.?";
messages[84]="Ankara, Turkey was originally known as Angora, the home of Angora goats and rabbits. ";
messages[85]="Orcas, also known as killer whales, are found in every ocean in the world.";
messages[86]="Louisiana is the only state that has parishes instead of counties.";
messages[87]="Americans eat billions of hot dogs each year.";
messages[88]="Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee beans.";
messages[89]="The Polish word for money is ?zloty.?";
messages[90]="The blobs and lines you see when you close your eyes are called phosphenes.";
messages[91]="Florida is the lightning capital of the United States.";
messages[92]="The first traffic light in America began operating on August 5, 1914, in Cleveland.";
messages[93]="The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a president.";
messages[94]="Chocolate was introduced to the U.S. in 1765 by John Hanan.";
messages[95]="Jimmy Carter was the first U. S. president born in a hospital.";
messages[96]="Keep a bottle of Mr. Clean® at your desk at work for quick cleaning jobs. Use it on your phone, desk, stapler, and filing cabinets.";
messages[97]="There are 63,360 inches in a mile.";
messages[98]="The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters. ";
messages[99]="The Queen of England has two birthdays. She was born April 21, but it?s customary to celebrate the Sovereign?s birthday in the summer, so her ?official? birthday is normally held on the second Saturday in June.";
messages[100]="The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. ";
messages[101]="The Hs in 4-H stand for Head, Heart, Health and Hands. ";
messages[102]="Cascade Crystal Clear™ helps dishes dry quickly. A surfactant reduces the surface tension on the water allowing it to sheet off.";
messages[103]="To clean your blender after a party, add hot water and Dawn?, and blend!";
messages[104]="Carnegie Hall opened in 1891 in New York.";
messages[105]="A baby eel is called an elver; a baby oyster is called a spat. ";
messages[106]="The first zoo in the U.S. was in Philadelphia.";
messages[107]="In 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222-0?the largest margin of victory in college football history.";
messages[108]="Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter.";
messages[109]="The opisthenar is the back of the human hand.";
messages[110]="Former L.A. Lakers star Jerry West is the silhouette on the NBA logo.";
messages[111]="According to the Treasury Department, a $1 note will last about 22 months, but a $100 note will last around 9 years.";
messages[112]="The hands of the clock in the steeple of Independence Hall on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10. U.S. Treasury Department. ";
messages[113]="The outside of the White House requires 570 gallons of paint. ";
messages[114]="The Mona Lisa dates from about 1505.";
messages[115]="Crayons were first sold in 1903.";
messages[116]="In 1815, because of a declaration by James Madison, Thanksgiving was celebrated twice.";
messages[117]="Uranus, the first planet discovered in modern times, was observed in 1781.";
messages[118]="Mr. Clean® was introduced in 1958 as an all-purpose cleaner.";
messages[119]="Mr. Clean® kills 99.9% of household germs including salmonella choleraesuis, escherichia coli, and proteus mirabilis; and the viruses influenza A2 and herpes simplex type 1 (causes cold sores).";
messages[120]="Mr. Clean® is now available in fresh seasonal scents: Spring Garden, Summer Citrus, Sparkling Apple, and Invigorating Breeze.";
messages[121]="Put a small amount of Mr. Clean® in your toilet bowls each night before bed. In the morning, every bathroom will smell great.";
messages[122]="Dawn® Fresh Escapes™ has three great scents: Apple Blossom™ Antibacterial, Citrus Burst Scent™, and Wildflower Medley™.";
messages[123]="The Boca Raton Resort & Club uses Febreze® Deep Clean in every room, every day.";
messages[124]="Febreze® Laundry Odor Eliminator cleans away hard-to-remove odors in the wash.";
messages[125]="Febreze® Auto is made especially for cars, another place that's surprisingly fabric-filled and where odors collect.";
messages[126]="Febreze® is a water-based product that uses a modified starch derived from corn to eliminate a wide range of odors.";
messages[127]="You can clean and freshen the inside of your dishwasher by running an empty load with Cascade® Plastic Booster™.";
messages[128]="You can clean and freshen the inside of your dishwasher by running an empty load with Cascade® Plastic Booster™.";
messages[129]="Using the heat generated by your dishwasher, Cascade® Scent Expressions™ releases light, kitchen-freshening scents through your dishwasher's vents.";
messages[130]="Swiffer® was introduced in 1998 and expanded around the world in less than 18 months.";
messages[131]="Swiffer® makes a great housewarming gift.";
messages[132]="Swiffer® is more efficient at removing cat and dog allergens than ordinary cleaning methods.";
messages[133]="Clean window blinds quickly and easily with the Swiffer® Mitt. ";
messages[134]="The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924.";
messages[135]="The A&W of root beer fame is short for Allen and Wright.";
messages[136]="When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.";
messages[137]="Anise is used in greyhound races as the scent on the artificial rabbit.";
messages[138]="The world?s widest road is the Monumental Axis in Brazil.";
messages[139]="Buckingham Palace has more than 600 rooms.";
messages[140]="Elmo is the first puppet in history to testify on Capitol Hill.";
messages[141]="A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 mph.";
messages[142]="The double coconut has the largest seed in the world.";
messages[143]="A postcard collector is called a deltiologist.";
messages[144]="Almonds belong to the same plant family as cherries and peaches.";
messages[145]="Cats can hear ultrasound.";
messages[146]="Camels have three eyelids.";
messages[147]="Kangaroos can't walk backward.";
messages[148]="Mosquito repellants do not repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors.";
messages[149]="Charlie Brown's father was a barber.";
messages[150]="The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.";
messages[151]="Jay Berwanger won the first Heisman Trophy, and his aunt used it as a doorstop for a year.";
messages[152]="A jiffy is actually 1/100 of a second.";
messages[153]="U.S. President William Taft had a cow named Pauline Wayne.";
messages[154]="The first fully automatic dishwasher was manufactured in 1940.";
messages[155]="The pineapple is a traditional symbol of good luck that's often seen over doorways. ";
messages[156]="It wasn't until 1950 that the Diner's Club introduced the first international credit card.";
messages[157]="It wasn't until 1950 that the Diner's Club introduced the first international credit card.";
messages[158]="In ancient cultures, use of umbrellas was permitted only for very important people.";
messages[159]="Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903, and was granted a patent for it 1905.";
messages[160]="The first convenient disposable diaper was invented by Marion Donovan in 1950.";
messages[161]="The little groove between your nose and top lip is called a philtrum.";
messages[162]="The Gauls are credited with inventing soap; the hair mixture of ash and fat they used also cleaned dirt off their skin.";
messages[163]="The story of George Washington and the cherry tree was invented by Mason Locke Weems in a biography published shortly after Washington?s death.";
messages[164]="Transparent adhesive tape was invented by Richard G.Drew in 1930.";
messages[165]="Bar codes were invented in 1949 by Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver and first used in grocery stores in the 1970s.";
messages[166]="Emily Murphy, a Canadian, was the first woman in the British Commonwealth to be appointed as a magistrate, in 1916.";
messages[167]="We?ve all heard the expression, ?No pain, no gain,? but Benjamin Franklin is credited with ?There are no gains without pains.?";
messages[168]="The first mandatory seat belt law was enacted in New York State on July 12, 1984, and began to be enforced in early 1985.";
messages[169]="The bride stands on the groom?s left because during ancient times, his sword hand had to be free in case of a brawl during the ceremony.";
messages[170]="In addition to being great on greasy dishes, Dawn? dishwashing liquid also saves lives! It's used to clean wildlife affected by oil spills. ";
messages[171]="Mr. Clean? was once voted the sexiest man alive.";
messages[172]="Only Cascade® Scent Expressions™ automatic dish detergent is heat-activated in the dishwasher to release scent into the air and actually freshens your kitchen. ";
messages[173]="A one-liter cartridge of Swiffer cleaning solution will clean over 1,000 square feet of floor, which is equivalent to the entire floor area of eight rooms.";
messages[174]="The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.";
messages[175]="Iced tea was introduced in 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.";
messages[176]="A group of jellyfish is called a smack.";
messages[177]="A quarter has 119 grooves, or reeds, on its circumference. A dime has 118.";
messages[178]="Fort Payne, Alabama is the official Sock Capital of the World.";
messages[179]="Arco, Idaho was the first city in the world to be lit by atomic power";
messages[180]="Kids in Illinois get out of school for Casimir Pulaski Day, celebrating the Polish war hero. Illinois is home to just less than one tenth of the Polish population in the U.S.";
messages[181]="Elizabeth Blackwell was the first American woman to receive a medical degree in 1849. She graduated from the Geneva Medical College in New York.";
messages[182]="Smith is the most popular last name in the U.S., with Johnson and Williams coming in second and third, respectively.";
messages[183]="Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. ";
messages[184]="The phrase ?you're a real peach? originated from the tradition of giving a peach to a friend.";
messages[185]="There are more than 200 different species of raspberries, but only 2 species are grown on a large scale.";
messages[186]="To hide her pregnancy, Queen Juana of Portugal wore the first hoop skirt in 1470.";
messages[187]="Garlic rubbed on the soles of your feet will be noticeable on your breath after awhile.";
messages[188]="The penguin is the only bird in the world that can swim but can?t fly.";
messages[189]="Panama hats were first made in Ecuador.";
messages[190]="The skin on an adult human body weighs about six pounds.";
messages[191]="Wrigley?s gum was the first product to have a bar code.";
messages[192]="Walt Disney was afraid of mice.";
messages[193]="There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.";
messages[194]="The toothbrush was invented in 1498.";
messages[195]="Honey is often used as a center for golf balls.";
messages[196]="Octophobia is the fear of the number eight.";
messages[197]="There are approximately 6,800 different languages spoken in the world.";
messages[198]="Pigeons have excellent eyesight.";
messages[199]="Hummingbirds can?t walk.";
messages[200]="American car horns beep in the tone of F.";
messages[201]="The spots on dice are called ?pips.?";
messages[202]="An ostrich?s eye is bigger than its brain.";
messages[203]="A pregnant goldfish is called a ?twit.?";
messages[204]="There is a city called Rome on every continent.";
messages[205]="The electric chair was invented by a dentist.";
messages[206]="The average life span of a human taste bud is 10 days.";
messages[207]="The average adult only laughs 15 times a day.";
messages[208]="Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.";
messages[209]="There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty?s crown.";
messages[210]="Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.";
messages[211]="Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.";
messages[212]="There are 294 ways to make change for a dollar.";
messages[213]="It takes 1,000 pounds of almonds to make one pint of almond oil.";
messages[214]="The lollipop was named after a famous racehorse.";
messages[215]="Mothballs in your tool chest will keep your tools from rusting.";
messages[216]="James Buchanan is the only president to remain a bachelor.";
messages[217]="Jupiter is larger than all of the other planets combined.";
messages[218]="Thomas Edison invented wax paper.";
messages[219]="A group of kangaroos is called a ?mob.?";
messages[220]="A shark doesn?t have one bone in its body; its skeleton is made of cartilage.";
messages[221]="Libya is the only country with a single-colored flag.";
messages[222]="Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.";
messages[223]="Milk is the official state beverage of North Dakota.";
messages[224]="Pennsylvania is the first state to list its website URL on a license plate.";
messages[225]="Illinois has more personalized license plates than any other state.";
messages[226]="The cheetah is the only cat that can?t retract its claws.";
messages[227]="The underside of a horse?s hoof is called a ?frog.?";
messages[228]="A Butterfly can?t fly if its body temperature is less than 86 degrees.";
messages[229]="The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never actually been straight.";
messages[230]="One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.";
messages[231]="There are 6,374.6 miles of streets in New York City.";
messages[232]="Austin, Texas, is considered the ?Live Music Capital of the World.?";
messages[233]="One million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop. ";
messages[234]="Cats age 10 human years in the first six months of life.";
messages[235]="A fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.";
messages[236]="When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.";
messages[237]="One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.";
messages[238]="The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.";
messages[239]="A cricket?s ear is on its knee.";
messages[240]="A Boeing 747 can hold more than 57,000 gallons of fuel.";
messages[241]="A yoctosecond is one septillionth of a second.";
messages[242]="Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in a car, fly in a plane, and travel in a submarine. ";
messages[243]="Theodore ?Teddy? Roosevelt was the inspiration for naming the teddy bear.";
messages[244]="Noxzema® was first referred to as ?Dr. Bunting's Sunburn Remedy.? ";
messages[245]="The back of the human hand is the opisthenar.";
messages[246]="The pin that holds a hinge together is called a ?pintle.? ";
messages[247]="A baby bat is called a pup.";
messages[248]="Wine will spoil if exposed to light.";
messages[249]="About one-fifth of the world?s population lives in China.";
messages[250]="Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote.";
messages[251]="Victoria Day marks the beginning of the summer season in Canada, and is celebrated on the Monday before May 25 each year.";
messages[252]="Only female mosquitoes bite.";
messages[253]="Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on U.S. paper currency.";
messages[254]="An animal epidemic is called an ?epizootic.?";
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messages[256]="Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.";
messages[257]="A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.";
messages[258]="Pork is the world?s most widely eaten meat.";
messages[259]="There are 701 types of purebred dogs.";
messages[260]="The tall chef's hat is called a ?toque.?";
messages[261]="The study of ants is called myrmecology.";
messages[262]="Alaska?s state flag was designed by a 13-year-old boy.";
messages[263]="The abbreviation e.g. stands for ?exempli gratia,? or ?for example.? ";
messages[264]="The infinity sign is called a ?lemniscate.? ";
messages[265]="The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.";
messages[266]="A postcard collector is called a deltiologist.";
messages[267]="Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.";
messages[268]="A sphygmomanometer is an instrument that measures blood pressure.";
messages[269]="Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.";
messages[270]="A tightrope walker is known as a funambulist.";
messages[271]="Somniloquy is the act or habit of talking while asleep.";
messages[272]="The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.";
messages[273]="Each Scentstories™ by Febreze™ disc has five complementary scents that change every 30 minutes, giving you a multidimensional scent experience in your home. ";
messages[274]="There are more airports with unpaved runways than ones with paved runways in Canada.";
messages[275]="A large majority of Canadians, approximately 77 percent, live in cities or towns.";
messages[276]="There are about two million lakes in Canada, which make up approximately 8.9 percent of its land mass.";
messages[277]="Canada is the second largest country; Russia is the first.";
messages[278]="To unwind from a busy day play the Relaxing in a Hammock™ Scentstories™ by Febreze™ disc, and then sit back, close your eyes, and relax.";
messages[279]="Spray Febreze Air Effects™ in Citrus & Light™ to eliminate odors in the air.";
messages[280]="Use Febreze Air Effects™ in Meadows & Rain™ with Febreze® Fabric Refresher in Meadows & Rain for Febreze freshness throughout your home.";
messages[281]="Spilled some grease onto your stovetop? Mr. Clean Magic Eraser DUO has a sponge side to wipe up the spill, and a Magic Eraser side to remove any stubborn mess left behind.";
messages[282]="Mr. Clean® Antibacterial Multi-Surface Spray cuts tough grease, cleans glass, and provides antibacterial action?all in one product!";
messages[283]="Next time you dust your blinds, use Swiffer Dusters™ to get in between the slats easily.";
messages[284]="Try Swiffer Dusters™ with Extendable Handle for extra reach to clean ceiling fans.";
messages[285]="Have a cat or dog? Try Swiffer Sweep+Vac. The Swiffer® cloth will remove pet hair from your floors? surfaces, and the vacuum can pick up any larger debris?such as cat or dog food.";
messages[286]="Instead of scrubbing your pots and pans, use Dawn Power Dissolver™ to remove burnt-on food.";
messages[287]="Remove the black or yellow build-up on your pots and pans with Dawn Power Dissolver.";
messages[288]="Use the Dawn Power Dish Brush™, with its battery-powered rotating bristle, to power through left-over grease and grime in your slow cooker. ";
messages[289]="Skip the sink and use Cascade® Complete in your dishwasher instead of prewashing or pre-soaking dishes. ";
messages[290]="Cascade Scent Expressions™ releases light fragrances through your dishwasher vents, leaving your kitchen smelling fresh and clean.";
messages[291]="Use Febreze Allergen Reducer regularly to reduce up to 75% of allergens from cats, dogs and dust mites that can become airborne from fabric and eliminate odors.";
*/
/*messages[0]="Hawaii is the only U.S. state that produces coffee.";
messages[1]="The average human body holds enough carbon to make 900 pencils.";
messages[2]="It only takes 17 facial muscles to smile, but 42 to frown.";
messages[3]="The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the length of the Wright Brothers' first flight.";
messages[4]="The cashew nut is a member of the poison ivy family.";
messages[5]="An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell.";
messages[6]="On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).";
messages[7]="The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.";
messages[8]="Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.";
messages[9]="Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.";
messages[10]="Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.";*/
/* January fast facts
messages[0]="Cold water weighs more than hot water.";
messages[1]="The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.";
messages[2]="A sneeze can travel as fast as 160 kilometres per hour.";
messages[3]="Fingernails grow fastest on the right hand of right-handed people and the left hand of left-handed people.";
messages[4]="The Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun because heat expands the metal.";
messages[5]="Gram for gram, strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.";
messages[6]="A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.";
messages[7]="Months will always have a 'Friday the 13th' if the first day of the month is on a Sunday.";
messages[8]="There are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar.";
messages[9]="Apples are made of 25% air, which is why they float.";
messages[10]="The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. ";
messages[11]="Chocolate does not cause acne.";
*/