Stuff Your Dad Knows

How long can you go without food or water? Every curious kid will eventually want to know. An easy answer can be cribbed from the survival world: The Rule of 3's 3min without air- Death 3hrs in extreme weather with no shelter or warmth- Death 3dys with no water- Death 3wks with no food- Death That's the quick answer. But not everyone's body will follow this timeline. For example, Stig Severinsen of Denmark holds the Guinness World Record for holding a breath under water. 22 minutes. Obviously that's way more than 3. There's no world record for going without food or water. But there is a lot of variation in survival. Hunger strikes can often go over a month, and one striker from India is claimed to have gone 116 days. Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary socialist and while in prison he participated in a hunger strike that was reported to have lasted 116 days. There's no way to know if he had a little help extending the effort, but he did survive it only to be executed in 1931 at the age of 23. Stuff Your Dad Kn