The average heart is the size of a fist in an adult.
Your heart will beat about 115,000 times each day.
Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day.
The heart can continue beating even when it’s disconnected from the body.
Whales have the largest heart of any mammal.
Most heart attacks happen on a Monday.
The beating sound of your heart is caused by the valves of the heart opening and closing.
If you were to stretch out your blood vessel system, it would extend over 60,000 miles.
Laughing is good for your heart. It reduces stress and gives a boost to your immune system.
By Diana Wells, for Healthline Magazine.
Many tribal societies would eat the heart of the enemy to acquire their strength (medieval French troubadours sang of husbands serving the wife with her lover’s heart, and Mike Tyson was still threatening to eat Lennox Lewis’s in 2000). Mexico City is founded where a magician’s heart sprouted into a prickly pear. Read more in an very fun Guardian article by Louisa Young.
In Japanese culture, the heart is considered the seat of emotion and the source of feelings. This focus on the heart aligns with many cultural, philosophical, and artistic traditions in Japan that prioritize emotion, empathy, and the human experience. Read more at EJable.
The Sacred Heart is one of the most common motifs in religious folk art created in Mexico. The idea is that the physical heart of Jesus is a symbol of his divine love for humanity. The Mexican sacred heart comes in various forms--with flames around it, with a crown, with a dagger through the center and sometimes with a crown of thorns--and all represent the same thing, Jesus' compassion for humanity. Read more at Zinnia Folk Arts.
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