Did you know that when a choir sings
their heart rates synchronize? These
are 25 amazing. facts about your heart
that are hard to beat!

25
Every day, the heart creates enough
energy to drive a truck 20 miles.

24
In a lifetime, that is equivalent to
driving to the moon and back.

23
The heart pumps blood to almost all of
the body’s 75 trillion cells.

22
Only the corneas receive no blood
supply.

21
The heart does the most physical work
of any muscle during a lifetime.

20
During an average lifetime, the heart
will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels
of blood— enough to fill 200 train
tank cars.

19
The first heart cell starts to beat as
early as 4 weeks.

18
The blue whale has the largest heart
weighing over 1,500 pounds.

17
The more education you have, the
lower your risk of heart disease.

16
In spite of that, heart disease is still
the greatest threat to your health.

15
It has even been found in 3,000 years
old mummies.

14
Happiness, lack of stress, exercise, and
a healthy diet will keep your heart
healthy.

13
The number of heart attacks peaks on
Christmas Day, followed by December
26th, and then New Year’s.

12
You are also more likely to have a
heart attack on Monday morning than
any other time.

11
A normal heart valve is about the size
of a half dollar.

10
The first pacemakers plugged into the
wall.

9
Because the heart has its own
electrical impulse it can continue to
beat even when separated from the
body, as long has it has a supply of
oxygen.

8
In 1929, German surgeon Werner
Forssmann examined the inside of his
own heart by threading a catheter into
his arm vein. This was the first
cardiac catheterization, a now
common procedure.

7
On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan
Barnard of South Africa transplanted
a human heart into the body of Louis
Washansky. Although the recipient
lived only 18 days, it is considered the
first successful heart transplant.

6
Grab a tennis ball and squeeze it
tightly: that’s how hard the beating
heart works to pump blood.

5
A woman’s heart typically beats faster
than a man’s.

4
As we said earlier, happiness really
does lead to heart health. And so does
laughter. Laughing can send 20% more
blood flowing through your body and
it relaxes your vessel walls.

3
No one is exactly sure why the heart
has historically been associated with
love (many ancient civilizations
associated it with emotions) but some
historians attribute it to the Greeks.

2
The idea of a broken heart actually
carries some weight. After
experiencing an emotionally
traumatic event your body releases
stress hormones into the blood stream
that can temporarily “shock” the heart
and even mimic heart attack
symptoms.

1
A recent study by Swedish researchers
showed that when a choir sings, their
hearts rhythms synchronize.

Incase

Intresing. The heart is surely a wonderful piece of organ in the human body.