88 Mph facts
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The original ending to Back to the Future would have Marty driving 88 mph towards a nuclear blast in a nuclear test site. However, Universal deemed it too expensive to shoot in the desert, so the lightning scene was instead shot at the Universal backlot and is shown in the final version.
The DeLorean needed to accelerate to 88 mph for time travel because the time to completely enter the wormhole is exactly enough to circumnavigate earth at light speed, arriving at the same location back in California (but in another time)
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The steam locomotive, the Sierra No. 3, was both the Hooterville Cannonball and the steam engine that pushed the DeLorean to 88 mph in Back to the Future III, and has appeared in more movies than any other locomotive.
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Congress capped the national speed limit at 55 mph (88 km/h) in response to a fuel shortage, not as a safety precaution
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In Back to the Future, the original ending was going to have Marty drive 88 mph into the nuclear explosion instead of the bolt of lightning in order to go back to 1985.
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In Back to the Future, the original ending was supposed to have Marty driving 88 mph into the nuclear explosion in a nuclear test site instead of the bolt of lightning from the Clock Tower.
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In Back to the Future, Marty was originally going to drive 88 mph into the nuclear explosion from a nuclear test site instead of a bolt of lightning from the Clock Tower
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The Horsefly is the fastest insect at 90 mph; Cheetah 75 mph, Goose 88 mph
