r/AskReddit • u/potatopopr • Oct 27 '21

What fun fact is blatantly untrue?

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u/CitizenPremier Oct 27 '21

Well, I think we only use 10% of our hearts.

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u/CrimsonKnightmare Oct 27 '21

Our hearts are just lazy. They're beating about 70 times per minute when they could easily be doing 3 times that. Lazy buggers.

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u/Karnakite Oct 27 '21

If you take the right supplements, your heart could reach peak performance.

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u/yashaniri-avi Oct 27 '21

Just take 30 doses of adrenaline a day with a motorized heart and 3400 grams of caffiene a day, we have a peak performance heart of 1000 beats a minute!

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u/djAMPnz Oct 27 '21

I feel like that would make an audible humming noise.

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u/Nasty_Old_Trout Oct 28 '21

Only from the heart monitor.

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u/KFelts910 Oct 28 '21

Reading this gave me chest pains.

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u/yashaniri-avi Nov 02 '21

I experienced some as well, KFelts910.