The heart is designed to perform one task very well, pump blood throughout your body. Your heart works 24 hours,7 days a week your entire life. Let's take a look at several heart facts.
1.Your heart is centrally located in your chest and not on the right side.
2.Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day.
3.Your heart pumps around 260 liters of blood an hour.
4.Your heart weighs less than a pound.
5.Your heart has four chambers, two atria where the blood enters the heart, and two ventricles where the blood exits the heart.
6.Your brain uses 15% of the total blood your heart pumps, but the kidneys use 20%.
7.The journey of blood around your body takes around 50 seconds.
8.Your heart pumps blood to the body called Systemic Circulation to your lungs called Pulmonary circulation.
9.Heart attacks are more common in the morning hours.
10.Your heart is the size of your fist.
11.Arne Larsson received the first pacemaker in 1958 and lived to the age of 86.
12.When the valves of your heart open and shut causes the beating sound of your heart.
13.Laughing is good for your heart
14.Why your heart is associated with love is a mystery.
15.Men's hearts beat slightly slower than the female's heart.
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