~So, I'm researching the heart for a presentation.~

Here are some interesting facts that I've cut and paste for your enjoyment...

*Your system of blood vessels - arteries, veins and capillaries - is over 60,000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice!
*The adult heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood each minute - approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day - throughout the body.
*When attempting to locate their heart, most people place their hand on their left chest. Actually, your heart is located in the center of your chest between your lungs. The bottom of the heart is tipped to the left, so you feel more of your heart on your left side of your chest.
*The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.
*In a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times
*An adult woman's heart weighs about 8 ounces, a man's about 10 ounces
*A child's heart is about the size of a clenched fist; an adults heart is about the size of two fists.
*Blood is about 78 percent water.
*Blood takes about 20 seconds to circulate throughout the entire vascular system.
*The structure of the heart was first described in 1706, by Raymond de Viessens, a French anatomy professor.
*The electrocardiograph (ECG) was invented in 1902 by Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven. This test is still used to evaluate the heart's rate and rhythm.
*The first heart specialists emerged after World War I.
*Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
*Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
*The human heart weighs less than a pound.
*The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
*The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893. (Have you seen medical instruments from the 1800's?!?!)
*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 beast roughly 35 million times a year.
*Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications.
*In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
*In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa. (South Africa?!?!)
*People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
*Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.
*At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions

Amazing, ain't it?

Now, onto deeper research...