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Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your heart can keep beating even if it is separated from the body because it has its own electrical impulse.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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75 trillion cells receive blood from the heart. Only the corneas don't.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Having an orgasm at
least 3 times a weekcuts in half the likelihood
of coronary heart disease.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE -
Your heart will pump nearly
1.5 million barrels of blood
during your lifetime, enough to
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Instead of chest pains, heart attacks in women have nausea, indigestion, and shoulder aches.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third, researchers found.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Multivitamins increase the risk of cancer and heart disease, according to recent studies.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same way his donor did.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Vegetarians are 19% less likely to die from heart disease, a study found.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one-third.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Couples who are in love
synchronize their
heart rates
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The human heart is not on the left-hand side of the body; it's in the middle.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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One-third of first heart attacks are fatal, and another third result in permanent damage to the heart.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Smoking makes the risk of a heart attack 200% to 400% greater than that of nonsmokers.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Stayin' Alive" has the optimum tempo for performing CPR on someone who has just suffered a heart attack.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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People who work 11 hours or more a day are 67% more likely to have a heart attack than those with an 8-hour work day, according to a study.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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While sudden heart attacks during sex are rare, 75% of them happen to men who are cheating on their wives.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The inventor of the heart stent approached numerous companies for funding and was rejected. It was funded by the owner of Fuddrucker's restaurant, whom he met by chance on a golf course.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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People who work 11 hours or more a day are 67% more likely to have a heart attack than people with an 8-hour work day, according to a study.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A cocaine addict's heart can beat for 25 minutes outside their body.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first heart transplant using a "dead heart" was performed by surgeons in Australia, in October 2014.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A pumping human heart can squirt blood 30ft.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The death of a loved one makes you up to 21 times more likely to suffer a heart attack within a day of your loss.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
