Did you know? Men's World Triple Jump record (18.29 m) is 4 x Length of a classic Ford Mustang (first generation) car (4.61 m)
Speed of Japan's Shinkansen bullet train (320 km/h)
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Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
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