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I got pulled over for going 7 mph over the speed limit.

by CopyPastaArchive August 8, 2022, 7:01 am

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TIL sound travels at 343 m/s in air, 1,481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5,120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast) and in diamond sound travels at 12,000 metres per second (39,000 ft/s),[2]— about 35 times its speed in air because of how exceptionally stiff diamond is.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 3:20 am

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TIL roadrunners are actually much slower than coyotes. A roadrunner sprints at about 20 mph (or 32 km/h), whereas a coyote’s top speed can reach over 40 mph (or 64 km/h).

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 9:31 pm

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speed cat

by CopyPastaArchive July 29, 2022, 8:25 am

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Police pulls over a car driving 15 mph in a 70 mph speed zone

by cringeyjokesman July 26, 2022, 9:27 pm

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TIL the bartender in The Right Stuff, who chews out Gordon Cooper, calling him a “rookie” and a “pud-knocker,” is Florence Barnes, who held the women’s world speed record (taking it from Amelia Earhart), and worked as a stunt pilot in Hollywood. The other bartender was Chuck Yeager.

by whatilearned July 26, 2022, 9:59 am

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TIL you can extract vocals from the vibration of inanimate objects, using a high speed camera.

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 7:34 pm

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TIL The speed record for unpowered RC gliders is 548 miles per hour (882 km/hr) using the dynamic soaring techniques (repeatedly crossing between air masses of differing velocities) pioneered by the albatross.

by whatilearned July 22, 2022, 5:50 pm

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Need for Speed Rivals Intro

by CopyPastaArchive July 18, 2022, 4:57 pm

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TIL the first supersonic airliner was not the Concorde or Tu-144, but a DC-8. During a test flight in 1961 it achieved supersonic speed for 16 seconds while in a dive. Accompanying the airliner in a chase plane was Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.

by whatilearned July 14, 2022, 9:54 pm

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TIL about canopy piloting. A sport where you jump out of a helicopter to skim across a lake at a high speed.

by whatilearned July 13, 2022, 6:43 am

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From r/emo Songs about dealing with trauma & guilt after running over several pedestrians at high speed?

by CopyPastaArchive July 7, 2022, 9:14 pm

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