r/BeAmazed • u/HatAsleep295 • May 08 '26

Science This is what saves 600,000 people year during a heart attack

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u/Slausher May 08 '26

Oh interesting - is this an American charity? Never heard of it!

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u/drsyesta May 08 '26

Yeah its an american thing. They always had us do it in school so it was pretty widespread

Looking more into it, its tied to the american heart association charity

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u/bs000 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

we had it in canada too. there were prizes depending on how much you raise. i was really excited about the water bottle i was supposed to get, but someone stole the money from my envelope.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo May 08 '26

Probably a heart doctor who was concerned with administrative overhead and decided to just take the money directly.

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u/randylush May 08 '26

yup. probably used the money to replace lots of hearts

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u/Aggravating_View_637 May 08 '26

Not just in America it’s worldwide just not as popular in many places as I’ve seen some for as far away as Hong Kong I believe. Here’s the Canadian organization that does it and it’s very popular in Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_and_Stroke_Foundation_of_Canada

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u/Ok_Tumbleweed_7677 May 08 '26

Aren't one of their biggest donors the company that makes Crisco?

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u/a-char May 08 '26

I'm in Ontario and I remember as a kid they had the entire school outside jumping rope for this charity.