SortStack #2853 — 2034-04-01
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 men's 100 m freestyle world record swim 46.4 sec
Pan Zhanle's 46.40 at Paris 2024 stunned the field — he won by over a second, an eternity in a sprint event decided by fingernails.
- Yuri Gagarin's entire Vostok 1 spaceflight 108 min
The first human spaceflight was a single orbit — and Gagarin ejected and parachuted down separately from his capsule, landing in a potato field.
- The world's longest scheduled flight, Singapore to New York 19 h
The route covers about 15,300 km. The aircraft is configured with no economy class at all — partly so passengers survive the experience.
- The Apollo 13 mission, launch to splashdown 6 days
After the oxygen tank exploded, the crew used the lunar module as a lifeboat and slingshotted around the Moon — NASA's 'successful failure'.
- The First World War 4.3 years
The armistice was signed at dawn but set for 11 am — nearly 2,700 men died in those final six hours, the last just one minute before peace.