Did you know? Speed of Japan's Shinkansen bullet train (320 km/h) is 10 x Top speed of a roadrunner (32 km/h)
Speed of Earth's rotation around its own axis, at ground level at the equator ...
World Land Speed record for motorcycles ...
Fastest speed attained by a manned rocket sled ...
Speed of a commercial airliner ...
Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
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