Fun Facts About the Human Heart

The average heart beats 70 times per minute, or 100,000 times per day, or 37,000,000 times each year.
The first heart pacemakers plugged into a wall socket.
Our heart is like a well-coordinated machine. The right side pumps blood into our lungs while the left side pumps it back into the body.
Before the invention of the stethoscope, doctors had to put their ears directly on the patient’s chest to hear the heart beating.
The heart starts beating about four weeks after conception, and doesn’t stop until death.
A woman’s heart generally beats faster than a man’s: about 78 times compared to 70 times per minute for men.
The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
A University of California at Davis study has shown that romantically involved couples breathe at the same rate and have synchronized heartbeats.

CREDIT:
Dr. John Foley, cardiologist, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group, Norwich
ClevelandClinic.org/healthhub

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