Your arteries, veins, and capillaries are over 100,000 miles long. That is long enough to go around the world more than twice!
Your blood takes this course about once every minute. WOW!
Two million red blood cells die every second.
By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.
In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.
Your heart is about the size of your fist.
Your heart works tirelessly. In a lifetime, about 2,500,000,000 times!
Your heart contracts (squeezes) 100,000 times a day
Each minute, your heart pumps 5-6 quarts of blood.
Every 24 hours, your heart pumps about 2000 gallons. That's almost 37 fifty-five barrel drums every day!
The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
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