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An heart is about the size of a fists.
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The right side of your heart pumps blood into your lungs. The left side of your heart pumps blood back through your body.
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A Cheetah’s heartbeat can go up to 250 BPM.
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The smallest known mammal by mass, the Etruscan shrew weight in at under 2 grams and has a 25 beats per second heart rate.
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The average of a woman is about 8 beats per minute faster than a man.
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Other than the cornea, every cell in the human body gets blood from heart.
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Your heart beats over 1,00,000 times per day.
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body. That’s enough to go around the world twice.
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More heart attacks happen on Monday than on any other day of the week.
In the literature
PubMed and arXiv
- PubMed2004A light-hearted look at a lion-hearted organ (or, a perspective from three standard deviations beyond the norm) part 2 (of 2 parts).Loe MJ, Edwards WD · Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular PathologyRead the paper
- PubMed2004A light-hearted look at a lion-hearted organ (or, a perspective from three standard deviations beyond the norm). Part 1 (of two parts).Loe MJ, Edwards WD · Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular PathologyRead the paper
- arXiv2022Not peer reviewedImproving the Factual Accuracy of Abstractive Clinical Text Summarization using Multi-Objective OptimizationarXiv preprintRead the paper
- arXiv2022Not peer reviewedFast and robust parameter estimation with uncertainty quantification for the cardiac functionarXiv preprintRead the paper
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