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Tower and Town, July 2023

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Fabulous Facts About The Human Heart

You thought you knew all about it, think again!

The human heart, it is the most important part of your body. Your heart weighs about nine to twelve ounces. Here's something that'll blow your mind, newborn's hearts beat twice as fast as an adult. Have you ever wondered how big your heart is? Well it's as big as a large fist (or two hands clapped together).

I'm going to blow your mind!

However, these are only some facts, let's talk about the big ones. There are sixty thousand miles of blood vessels in your body. Crazy, right? Laughing is good for your heart, the more you laugh, the more your heart is happy.

Heart beats

To answer your question of how many times your heart beats a day: it beats one hundred thousand times. An average adult heart beats seventy times a minute. Oh, and something that you didn't know: heart attacks happen most commonly on Monday mornings, which I'm sure you can understand.

Eleanor

      

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