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| | Facts | - In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - 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: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 am.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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: Thu Oct 31 2002) - People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
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