// JavaScript Document
funFacts = new Array(35);

/*funFacts[0] = "Osprey build nests as big as 5 feet in diameter and mate for life";
funFacts[1] = "Sea nettles are made of 90% water";
funFacts[2] = "Seahorses can be found in underwater grass beds in the Bay";
funFacts[3] = "Periwinkles, or salt water snails, can be abundantly found on cord grass in salt marshes";
funFacts[4] = "Oysters filter the water and provide habitat";
funFacts[5] = "Male fiddler crabs have one large claw and one small";
funFacts[6] = "Flounder are flat fish that live on the bottom of the bay";
funFacts[7] = "Blue crabs are decapods - they have ten legs!";
funFacts[8] = "Moon jellies are the largest jellyfish in the Bay and do not sting!";
funFacts[9] = "Striped Bass are also known as rockfish";
funFacts[10] = "Salinity is the amount of salt in the water";
funFacts[11] = "Blue crabs molt or shed their exoskeleton as they grow";
funFacts[12] = "Once a baby oyster settles on a hard surface it is called a “spat”";
funFacts[13] = "The Chesapeake Bay watershed is 64,000 square miles";
funFacts[14] = "The Chesapeake Bay watershed contains portions of VA, MD, PA, DE, NY, WV and Washington DC";
funFacts[15] = "An estuary, like Chesapeake Bay, is where salt and fresh water meet";
funFacts[16] = "Underwater grasses are angiosperms, or flowering plants";
funFacts[17] = "The Chesapeake Bay begins in Cooperstown New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame";*/
funFacts[0] = "Osprey build nests as big as 5 feet in diameter and mate for life.";
funFacts[1] = "Sea nettles are made of 90% water.";
funFacts[2] = "Seahorses can be found in underwater grass beds in the Bay.";
funFacts[3] = "Periwinkles, or salt water snails, can be abundantly found on cord grass in salt marshes";
funFacts[4] = "Oysters filter the water and provide habitat.";
funFacts[5] = "Male fiddler crabs have one large claw and one small.";
funFacts[6] = "Flounder are flat fish that live on the bottom of the Bay.";
funFacts[7] = "Blue crabs are decapods - they have ten legs!";
funFacts[8] = "Moon jellies are the largest jellyfish in the Bay and do not sting!";
funFacts[9] = "Striped Bass are also known as rockfish.";
funFacts[10] = "Salinity is the amount of salt in the water – salinity in the Bay varies by location.";
funFacts[11] = "Blue crabs molt or shed their exoskeleton as they grow.";
funFacts[12] = "Once a baby oyster settles on a hard surface it is called a 'spat'.";
funFacts[13] = "The Chesapeake Bay watershed is 64,000 square miles.";
funFacts[14] = "The Chesapeake Bay watershed contains portions of VA, MD, PA, DE, NY, WV and Washington DC.";
funFacts[15] = "An estuary, like Chesapeake Bay, is where salt and fresh water meet.";
funFacts[16] = "Underwater grasses are angiosperms, or flowering plants.";
funFacts[17] = "The Chesapeake Bay begins in Cooperstown New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.";
funFacts[18] = "The Susquehanna River is the largest tributary to the Bay.";
funFacts[19] = "More than 16.6 million people live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed!";
funFacts[20] = "More than 350 species of fish can be found in the Bay and its tributaries.";
funFacts[21] = "The most common shark in the Bay is the sandbar shark (but don’t worry they’re harmless to humans!).";
funFacts[22] = "Humpback, pilot, & minke whales have all been found in the Bay.";
funFacts[23] = "The Bay is 200 miles long and varies in width from 3.4 to 35 miles wide.";
funFacts[24] = "The shoreline of the Bay is over 11,000 miles long…more than the entire west coast of the U.S.";
funFacts[25] = "Algae (tiny, single celled plants) are the primary producer of food and oxygen in the Bay.";
funFacts[26] = "The Chesapeake Bay holds 18 trillion gallons of water!";
funFacts[27] = "An asteroid twice the length of Manhattan helped create the depression which would eventually become the Bay.";
funFacts[28] = "The Bay was formed 5-8,000 years ago as ice sheets melted.";
funFacts[29] = "Every year almost 1 million waterfowl spend winter in the Bay basin.";
funFacts[30] = "Mute swans are not native to the Bay & are destroying much of the Bay’s underwater grasses.";
funFacts[31] = "Trees are important to the Bay – providing habitat for animals, producing oxygen, and keeping soil from eroding and clouding the Bay.";
funFacts[32] = "Young crabs live in underwater grasses where food is plentiful & they can hide until they have a strong shell.";
funFacts[33] = "The Bay produces 500 million pounds of seafood each year.";
funFacts[34] = "Male crabs are called jimmies; females are called sooks or sallies.";

index = Math.floor(Math.random() * funFacts.length);

function setFunFacts() {
	document.write (funFacts[index]);
	//document.write (funFacts[22]);
}