Things I learned lately 8 Jul

• Paul McCartney is 80!
• The Perseverance rover on Mars gets around. On February 5, 2022, just shy of the one-year anniversary of its landing on the red planet, Perseverance traveled 806 feet, breaking the record for distance traveled in one Martian day (Sol).
• Rick Moranis, of SCTV and Ghostbusters fame, went to elementary school with Geddy Lee of the rock band Rush.
• The largest automobile assembly plant in the world is Volkswagen's Wolfsburg plant, at 6,500,000 square metres of floor space. In comparison, the Tesla Gigafactory 1 in Nevada has 200,000 square metres of floor space. A typical Costco is 13,000 square metres, so you could fit 500 Costco warehouse stores in that Wolfsburg plant.
• The song Danger Zone, the song that features in Top Gun was not written by, nor originally intended to be performed by Kenny Loggins. Acts that might have sung on the track include Toto, Jefferson Starship and Corey Hart.
• Iquitos Peru (pop. 377,609) is the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road.