fact

#!/bin/sh
#
#

facts=(
'The Fact Sphere is the most handsome sphere.'
'The Fact Sphere is the most intelligent sphere.'
'Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis.'
"Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people
to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out."
"Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, 
did so accidentally while chasing a bird."
"In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth
ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning."
"William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in
1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing
ghosts."
"The automobile brake was not invented until 1895. Before this,
someone had to remain in the car at all times, driving in circles
until passengers returned from their errands."
"In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a
group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it."
"You could stand to lose a few pounds."
"Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense presures.
Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets,
commonly used today as packing material."
"To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror."
"The square root of rope is string."
"89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery."
"At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by
the Dutch."
"In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
freeing the slaves. Like everything he did, Lincoln freed the slaves
while sleepwalking, and later had no memory of the event."
"You will be dead soon"
"The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone
involved screamed the entire way."
"Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years.
For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the sun where
it hibernates undisturbed."
"Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to
fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium."
"Space does not exist"
"According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig."
"The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of
surgeons general is surgeonsed general."
"In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly
at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the
ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4%
of poor people are able to do this."
"If you have trouble counting, use the following mnemonic device:
one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before
six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting
difficulties seem like no big deal."
"The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very,
very thirsty."
)
balloonwall='-------------------------------------------------------------'
sphere='   V
     --======--
    |---------|
  / ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ \
/   / ‾‾‾‾‾ \   / ‾\
|  |   /‾\   | |    |
|  |   \_/   | |    |
|   \ _____ /  |    |
 \      |       \__/
   --___|____--- /
    | -------- |
    --=======--
'

factIndex=$(( RANDOM % ${#facts[@]} ))
echo $balloonwall
echo "${facts[factIndex]}"
echo $balloonwall
echo "$sphere"