AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XIII

1. The black box carried on every commercial aircraft is not black. It is bright orange - to aid in finding it at crash sights. Containing the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, it is a titanium-shielded device the size of two shoe boxes and designed to withstand temperatures hotter than molten lava, impacts 3,400 times the force of gravity, and the pressure at the bottom of the ocean. 

2. Beetles are the largest order of animals on earth - with 350,000 + species.

3. If the earth were the size of a grain of sand, the sun would be the size of an orange.

4. Human beings are the only species known to blush.

5. Olive Oyl's mother's name is NANA.

6. Flying the flag upside down is a signal of extreme distress.

7. Airplane tires are filled with nitrogen, not air. Nitrogen is less likely than oxygen to react with rubber at high temperatures.

8. Armadillos always give birth to identical (same sex) quadruplets.