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Black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact. The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash. Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062). The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers. Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon). Owls can't move their eyes from side to side. The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand. Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates. People in Iceland read more books per capita than any other country. reload more facts