Amazing heart facts
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- Date: Sep 22,2007
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- Our heart pumps about 5 litres of blood each minute
- In an average 70 year lifetime, our heart beats 2.5 billion times
- The size of our heart is about the size of our clenched fist
- Within a year of quitting smoking, your chance of having a heart attack drops in half
- The heart can produce enough pressure to squirt blood to a distance of 30 feet
- Heart is the first organ to begin functioning in the fetus
- Heart disease is the number one killer in the US
Wanna know more about our heart and how functions? Read Our wonderful heart!
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2 Responses for "Amazing heart facts"
Here’s another interesting heart fact for your list: Blood takes about 20 seconds to circulate through the body.
Coo! Thx for the faxt tho- helps me a lot in my Bio prep!
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