February 19, 2016
How fast?! Friday Facts
This month week we broke our own record for the fastest production and delivery of branded notebooks – 24 hours! An existing customer, Jobs Go Public, confirmed Thursday morning that they’d like to re-order and we were able to produce and ship their notebooks that day, so they arrived with the customer on Friday. We think getting a hand finished product to a customer within 24 hours is pretty impressive, but its perhaps not quite as impressive as:
1. The running speed of the fastest animal on the planet, the cheetah, which has been recorded at 61 mph.
2. The acceleration capability of a flea when it jumps, which is 50 times faster than a space shuttle. Watch the fleas in action.
3. Usain Bolt’s average ground speed, which from his record time of 9.58 s for the 100 m sprint, equates to 23.35 mph.
4. A flies ability to react to an object it sees and change direction – all possible in less than 30 milliseconds.
5. The fastest fish in the sea, the sailfish, which can reach up to speeds of 68mph (59 knots for the nautical among you).
And it is definitely not as curious or interesting as the fact that:
1. Sound travels 10 times faster through solid granite than it does air.
2. Fingernails grow faster than toenails (why I hear you cry, well, not even the scientists are 100% sure, but you can read the likely explanations here)
3. If you could drive to the sun at a steady speed of 55 mp/h, it would take you around 193 years.
4. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. [Want to know how to crack a whip?]
5. The speed of the earth’s rotation is 1,040 mph – so you are moving about a mile every three and a half seconds. But the earth’s rotation around the sun is even faster, travelling at 67,062 mph!
Friday Facts complied by speed typist Laura.
