heart, n.Trivia

The human heart pumps so much blood in a lifetime that to approximate that amount with a kitchen faucet, you'd have to crank it to full blast and let it go for 45 years.

Octopi have three hearts.

The heart symbol was first used to denote love in the 1250. Prior to that, it represented foliage.

Blue whales have such large blood vessels that a human being could swim through them.

The heart-shaped seeds of the Silphium plant is the reason that we associate hearts with romance. It was a food, a medicine, and one of the first effective birth control. It's believed the Romans drove it to extinction.

Music effects us, our heart can sync to the rhythm of the music we're listening to.

Worms have five pairs of hearts

Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood

Leonardo studied the flow of blood through the valves of the heart, by creating a mold of a real heart with wax and then pumping water mixed with seeds through a glass caste of it.

Blue whales have a heart the size of a small car.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

Dr. William Sewell created an artificial heart using parts from an erector set in the 1940s.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

The blue whale heart rate gets as low as 2 beats per minute, raising up to 37 when it resurfaces (more oxygen access).

women's hearts beat faster than mens

A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.

A blue whale's heart only beats about twice per minute