SortStack #662 — 2028-04-01
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- One human heartbeat at rest 798 ms
Your heart beats roughly 100,000 times a day and around 3 billion times in a lifetime, pumping enough blood to fill an Olympic pool several times over.
- The Titanic's sinking, from iceberg to going under 2.7 h
The ship's band famously kept playing on deck for most of it — and the iceberg itself had likely calved from a Greenland glacier years earlier.
- The filming of Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood' 11.4 years
The same cast reunited for a few days each year so the actors aged in real time — the lead grew from age six to eighteen on screen.
- The time since a human last stood on the Moon 53.4 years
Gene Cernan traced his daughter's initials in the dust in December 1972 — no boots have touched the surface since.
- The Hundred Years' War between England and France 116.6 years
Despite the name, it lasted 116 years (1337-1453), punctuated by long truces — and technically England and France stayed at war on paper even longer.
- The time since humans invented the wheel 5.5K years
Potter's wheels came before wheels for transport — and the oldest wooden wheel ever found, near Ljubljana, is about 5,150 years old.