Breath Facts

It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.

Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.

It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.

A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 hours, allowing it to survive flash floods and even being submerged underwater.

Sloths can swim three times faster than they can move on land. They can also hold their breath for up to 40 seconds underwater.

In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.