Heart Facts

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.

It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.

Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids that help reduce the risk of heart disease.

Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!

Your heart will pump about 212 million liters in its lifetime.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.

Men have larger hearts; women's hearts beat faster.

Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!

The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.

The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute!

Singing exercises your heart, lungs, and releases endorphins which make you feel good.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.

The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.

The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!

A shrimp's heart is located in its cephalothorax, the fused head-thorax region covered by its shell.

People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.

A killer whale's heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.

Ten seconds of hugging a day increases levels of oxytocin, which can reduce blood pressure, thus cutting the risk of heart disease.

During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

Nearly 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.