Surprising Facts About Flying

Listen, airplane cabins are pressurized to match the oxygen levels at eight

thousand feet elevation, not sea level. Your body is literally starving for oxygen the entire flight,

which is why you feel exhausted after landing. That pressurization also causes the

air inside your body to expand by up to thirty percent, making you bloated and gassy throughout

the journey. The food tastes terrible because your taste buds lose about thirty

percent of their sensitivity at altitude. Airlines literally add extra salt and spices to compensate,

but it still tastes bland. Your sense of smell drops by twenty to fifty percent

up there. Those tiny holes in airplane windows are not defects. They're called breather