Random Facts: What color is the "black box" in an airplane?

What color is the "black box" in an airplane? 
What did Christopher Walken do before acting? 
Why is there a candy called a DumDum?

Episode Transcript

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Well that was kind of random.Mel dying for random facts with Mel Taylor.
Let's do your random facts for today. I got some good ones.
Christopher Walkin actually worked as a liontamer in his youth, like before you
got into acting. The Spangler CandyCompany chose to name their famous lollipop's dum

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Dums just because it was a wordthat was easy for kids to say.
The black box on an airplane isusually bright orange or red. It is
not black. They were originally black, but they made it way harder for
you to find, you know,during a crash. Kobe Bryant's full name
was Kobe Bean Bryant. He wasnamed after Japanese Kobe Beef. His parents

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sought on a menus like we're gonnago that way, and Bean was a
shortened form of his father's nickname,jelly Bean. And the best selling fiction
author in history is either William Shakespeareor Agatha Christie. They've both sold somewhere
between two billion and four billion books. That's a lot of books. That's
a look today. Add to yourrandom facts