/* This JavaScript (Random Quotes) developed by Scott Clark
The Source is available at http://www.clarksco.com/blog/
Copyright 2005 Clark Consulting */

var num_of_quotes = 13;
quotes = Math.floor (num_of_quotes * Math.random());

if (quotes==0) {
body="A blue whale's belly button is 8 inches wide.";
}

if (quotes==1) {
body="The Romans built the first swimming pools (separate from bathing pools).";
}

if (quotes==2) {
body="Elephants can swim up to 20 miles in one day &#8212; they use their trunks as natural snorkels.";
}

if (quotes==3) {
body="Swimming as an organized activity goes back as far as 2500 B.C. in ancient Egypt and later in ancient Greece, Rome and Assyria.";
}

if (quotes==4) {
body="Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.";
}

if (quotes==5) {
body="The first heated swimming pool was built by Gaius Maecenas of Rome in the first century B.C.";
}

if (quotes==6) {
body="Armadillos can walk underwater.";
}

if (quotes==7) {
body="A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.";
}

if (quotes==8) {
body="The eye of the giant squid is 15 inches in diameter &#8212; the size of a basketball.";
}

if (quotes==9) {
body="Starfish can have up to 16 arms!";
}

if (quotes==10) {
body="Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping their shells open and shut.";
}

if (quotes==11) {
body="The blue whale is the largest known animal to live on sea or land, reaching up to more than 110 feet in length and weighing nearly 200 tons &#8212; the equivalent of 50 adult elephants.";
}

if (quotes==12) {
body="A 30x50 foot swimming pool holds approximately 42,000 gallons of water. 1 gallon weighs about 8 pounds. That's 336,000 pounds of water! ";
}

document.write('<div align=left>');
document.write(''+ body +'');
document.write('</div>');