27 interesting facts about your heart

The heart is one of the most important, healthy parts of our body. The heart always works without resting throughout our lives without a moment of rest. Besides, there are many other interesting things about the heart that you may not know.

1. The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year and 2.5 billion times throughout life.

2. On average each day, the energy that an adult's heart makes is enough for a truck to run 32km.

3. In a lifetime, the above distance is equivalent to a round trip to the Moon.

4. A heart can pump up to 75 trillion cells in the body.

5. The cornea is the only part of the body that cannot pump blood.

6. The heart must work the most in all the muscles of the body.

7. On average, the heart pumps about 1.5 million barrels of blood throughout life, enough to fill 200 train cars.

8. During embryogenesis, the first heart cell begins to beat from week 4.

9. Blue whale has the largest heart of all animals, weighing about 680kg.

10. The more you study and the more knowledge you have, the less likely you will be to develop cardiovascular diseases.

11. Even so, heart disease is still the biggest threat to health and a health-related cause for most deaths.

12. An intact heart was found in a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.

13. A happy life, low stress, positive exercise and a balanced diet will help you have an extremely healthy heart.

14. The number of heart attacks often increases dramatically at Christmas, followed by December 26 and the new year.

15. You are also more likely to have a heart attack on Monday morning than any other day of the week.

16. Heart valves are about the same size as a 0.5USD coin.

17. The first heart attack machines were created to plug into the power outlet, so far only portable and battery-powered machines have been installed.

18. The heart has its own electrical impulse, so it can still beat normally despite being outside of the body.

19. In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann examined the inside of his own heart, by inserting a catheter into the main vein in his arm. This is the first case using cardiac catheterization, which is later widely used to diagnose heart disease.

29. December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant in the world, although the patient only survived an additional 18 days.

21. Try squeezing a tennis ball, which is similar to the job the heart has to do every day to pump blood throughout the body.

22. Women's hearts beat faster than men.

23. When smiling, the amount of blood pumped from the heart increases by about 20% and dilates blood vessels, so laughter works very well with the body.

24. No one can explain why the heart symbol is attached to love, but according to many records its origin is Greek.

25. Heart failure or negative emotions can cause fatal heart attacks, because stress hormones pass into the blood and lead to the heart.

26. Couples in a happy phase can beat with the same heartbeat after staring at each other's eyes for 3 minutes.

27. Research has proven when a choir chorus sang, their hearts beat at the same beat.

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