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Heart facts

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Since a scene in Ancient Scars deals with how much blood a heart can produce with each beat, I had to search that out. Turns out the answer is that it can produce up to 5 liters of blood per beat. Quite a bunch there.

Here are some other interesting facts about the human heart –

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And here is another – http://ift.tt/1FqXTai




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