Cheetahs Are Faster than You Are

At the Cincinnati Zoo, an 11-year-old cheetah named Sarah has set a new cross-species world record for the 100-meter dash. She covered the course in 5.95 seconds, hitting a top speed of 61 mph, or 98 kph. (Usain Bolt's human world record is 9.58 seconds.) Think about how fast that is for a minute, and contemplate that Sarah was just having fun; in the wild, cheetahs run even faster when they have an antelope in their sights.