The Human Heart; Uncommon Facts

·         Did you know your heart muscle is strong enough to lift 3,000 pounds?

·         Did you know the six quarts of blood in your body travel a distance of 12,000 miles around and around your body every single day?

Did you know your blood takes a very long trip through your body? If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.

·         Did you know your heart is located ever-so-slightly left of the middle of your chest, behind your sternum?  But it sure feels like its located far left of center yes?

·         Did you know your heartbeat is strong enough to project blood over 30 feet?

·         Did you know women hearts beat faster than men?

·         Did you know in one day, your heart beats 100,000 times?

·         Did you know the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute?

·         Did you know the blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint?

·         Did you know that Blood is 6 times thicker than water?       

                                                           

·         Did you know that, our heart (which is one of the main muscles) is so powerful that it can squirt the blood no less than 9 meters high? It's because it’s programmed to deliver the blood even in the less accessible areas of the body, like the toes & the fingertips, and therefore, in order to do this, it’s necessary for the heart to create lots of pressure inside the veins.

·         Did you know every drop of blood in your body is filtered by your body over 300 times a day?

·         Did you know when you laugh the blood flow to your heart is increased for about 45 minutes?

·         Did you know your heart pumps over 31,000,000 gallons of blood in a lifetime?

·         The winner of the day!!! I’m positive you never knew you could actually ‘break your heart’. Deep emotional hurt releases stress hormones like cortisol which could damage your heart

·          http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/humanbody/heart.html

·         http://facts.randomhistory.com/human-heart-facts.html

·         http://www.webmd.com/heart/features/amazing-facts-about-heart-health-and-heart-disease_

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