Things I learned lately 5 Aug

• Even though the Voyager spacecraft have passed the termination shock and heliopause, they won’t enter the Oort cloud for another 300 years, and won’t exit the Oort cloud for 30,000 years. Voyager 1’s speed is 540 million kilometres per year, or 3.6 AUs per year. An AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
• 83% of Canadians own or lease a vehicle.
• Fruit loops are all the same flavour.
• Pat Benetar won’t perform her song “Hit me with your best shot” anymore as a protest against gun violence.
• There’s a product called Bee Brick that has holes and hollows for cavity-nesting solitary bees (which are pollinators but not territorial or aggressive). What a great idea.
  
  
  
• Remember Hyperloop? The leading company in hyperloop technology (Virgin) is now focusing all of its efforts on moving cargo, not people. For now.
• Because GPS satellites are under a much lesser gravitational force due to their height above earth's surface, their clocks tick faster than those on earth. But because we use GPS clocks as a standard, GPS time has to be pre-corrected to be used.
• If a magnet sticks to the bottom of a pan or pot, it's probably induction stove compatible.
• Mel Gibson was asked to play the role of Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element.
• When filming of The Fifth Element started, Luc Besson was married to Maïwenn Le Besco, who played the role of the opera singer Diva Plavalaguna in the movie. Luc left her to take up with Milla Jovovich during filming. Jovovich and Besson married that year but divorced two years later.