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Facts in category: Speeds
| If you started to move with a speed higher than the speed of light you would arrive at the destination before you started to move. |
| If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse. |
| A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is 1 foot or about 30 cm. |
| The average raindrop falls at a rate of 22 mph. |
| The fastest speed for a land animal for 1 mile is 42mph. |
| A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. |
| We cannot see anything that moves faster than the speed of light. |
| The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph. |
| Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated. |
| Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg |
| The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h. |
| The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour. |
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