The heart is also known as Blood Bank of the human body. A place for every feeling and emotions. The heart is a muscular organ in humans and other animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. Today we share some Interesting & Surprising Scientific Facts about the Human Heart
Interesting & Surprising Scientific Facts about the Human Heart
Our heart is not fully located at the left side, actually, it is located just behind and slightly left of the breastbone which almost comes in the centre portion.
There is a girl in Russia named Virsaviya Borun who was born with a rare condition called Pentalogyof Cantrell which caused her heart to form outside the chest.
Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 32 km (20 miles).
After four weeks of pregnancy, the heart of the child begins to beat.
Till the date, the lowest beats recorded are 26 beats per minute and the highest beats recorded are 480 beats per minute.
It is found by researchers that owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Your heartbeats also change, according to the song you are hearing.
The heartbeat of the newly born child is the fastest (70-160 beat/minute) and the heartbeat is the slowest (30-40 beat/minute) in old age.
According to new studies, multivitamins can increase the risk of cancer and heart disease.
The weight of heart is between 250 to 350 grams.
Your heart beats 72 times in a minute and about 1 lac in the entire day and about 2.5 billion times throughout life.
The symptoms of heart attack are different in both men and women. A broken heart also pains like a heart attack.
Your heart sends blood to all 75 trillion cells of the body except for the cornea cells found in the eye.
It is found that there are 19% less chances of heart attacks to vegetarians than others.
The sound of ‘thump-thump’, which is heard on the heartbeat, is formed due to the opening and closing of the 4 valves found in the heart.
Heart diseases have also been found in 3,000-year-old Mummies.
If your heart pumps blood out of the body then blood can bounce up to 30 ft.
Love is denoted by “heart symbol” since 1250. But why people are using this, no one knows?
The first successful heart surgery took place in the year 1893, the first successful artificial valve was cast in 1950, for the first time in 1967, a person’s heart was inserted into another person (that person survived for 18 days) and the first permanent artificial heart was fitted in 1982.
The first heart transplant using a “dead heart” was performed by surgeons in Australia, in October 2014.
Smoking makes the risk of a heart attack 200% to 400% greater than that of nonsmokers.
So, these are Interesting & Surprising Scientific Facts about the Human Heart.
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