In honor of Valentine's Day I've found a list of 10 "heart-felt" facts that I find pretty interesting!
- 1. Your heart beats almost 100,000 times a day, feeding a 60,000-mile network of vessels
- 2. The heart weighs from 7 to 15 ounces. Male hearts, on average, are larger
- 3. The heart is a robust organ, pumping about 2,000 gallons of blood a day
- 4. If you could convert the energy produced by a pumping heart, it would be enough to power a truck for 20 miles
- 5. The symbol of the heart dates at least to 10,000 BC, when Cro-Magnon hunters painted heart-like symbols in caves (we all know this one is silly :-P)
- 6. Some people think the heart is on the left side of the chest. Others think it's on the right. Actually, it's in the middle
- 7. The pressure created by a single heart beat is enough to squirt blood 30 feet
- 8. More heart attacks occur on Mondays than any other day of the week. Doctors attribute that to stress levels
- 9. A heart can continue beating outside of the body if it has an adequate supply of oxygen. It is driven by electrical impulses
- 10. Not everyone lives to the same age. But, on average, the heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in a lifetime
Babump, babump, babump - did you know that a baby in the womb is comforted by the sound of his/her mother's beating heart? :)
ReplyDeleteI did! :-)
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