FUN HEART FACTS

• Your heart is about the size of your fist

• Your heart weight less than a pound

• Your heart beats about 115,000 times each day

• Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day

• The American pygmy shrew has the fastest heartbeat at 1,200 beats per minute

• Whales have the largest heart

• Giraffes have lopsided heart.  The left side is bigger to be able to pump blood up the long neck to the brain