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  • In seventy-five years the human heart pumps 3,122,000,000 gallons of blood, enough to fill in oil tanker over 46 times!
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    (Added: Fri Jul 10 2009 By misshorror)
  • The first human heart transplant happened on December 3, 1967. Unfortunately the patient only lived for eighteen days, succumbing in the end to pneumonia.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 am.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
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    (Added: Sat Sep 20 2008 By Gauher)
  • In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
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    (Added: Sat May 31 2008 By Gauher)



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