The human heart pumps 600,000 gallons a year.
The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.
A child's heart is about the size of a clenched fist; an adult's heart is about the size of two fists.
In a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.
The adult heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood each minute - approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day - throughout the body.
The human heart beat roughly 35 million times a year.
Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.
The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
When you're exercising, it takes your blood about ten seconds to get from your heart to your big toe and back.
Because [the heart] is a muscle with lots of blood supplied to it, it looks red like meat. In people who are overweight ... the heart looks yellow because it is covered with yellow fat.
By AnnaRose Keating 5C