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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

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