The human heart starts beating four weeks after conception
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Top 5 Amazing Facts About the Heart
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Your heart is approximately the size of both your fists. A man's heart weighs about ten ounces and a woman's weighs about eight ounces
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It delivers this blood to over 75 trillion cells in your body
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The human heart beats about 100,000 times a day (roughly 70 beats per minute) on average and a woman's heart beats faster than a man's, adding about eight extra beats per minute
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Every minute your heart pumps 1.5 gallons of blood
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Over an average lifetime the heart may beat 2.5 billion times and pump about 1-1.5 million barrels of blood which could fill 200 average train tank cars
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The heart has it's own electrical impulse power can continue beating if removed from the body provided there is an adequate supply of oxygen
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The right side of your heart pumps blood into the lungs and the left side pumps it back into your body
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Your heart beat changes and mimics the music you listen to. It's also believed that the heartbeat of people in love will synchronize after a three minute gaze into each others eyes
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A blue whale's heart weighs as much as 1,500 pounds
