AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING LXVIII

1. Only about 5% of the world's population has ever been on an airplane, though more than 80% of Americans have. 

2. 8,000 planes are in the air at any given moment, more than 5,000 of them above the United States.

3. Amelia Earhart's bright red Lockheed 5B Vega that she flew across the Atlantic weighed less than 2,000 pounds. A Boeing 747 can top 400,000. Each of its four engines weighs nearly 10,000 pounds.

4. Due to the few, but potentially fatal, incidents of food poisoning, many airlines now have pilots and co-pilots eat different meals to lessen the odds of their both becoming sick. 

5. There is an Unclaimed Baggage store in Scottsboro, Alabama. The facility has exclusive contracts with all major U.S. airlines to purchase lost luggage (defined as not picked up after three months). Many of the bags' contents are donated, but some items (jewelry and designer clothes, for example) end up on the store's shelves.

6. In the very best weather, 2,000 stars are visible to the unaided eye.

7. There are two ATM's in Antarctica. They are located at McMurdo Station and operated by Wells Fargo.

8. In the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes never says, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

9. In the earliest baseball games (1850's), umpires sat in padded rocking chairs 20 feet behind home plate.

10. Neither an introvert nor extrovert? Not to worry. There is an in-between personality type - the ambivert.