The blue whale’s heart is the size of a VW Beetle and weighs up to 1,000 lbs (453 kg).
100 Mind-Blowing Heart Facts
About 25% of all blood from the heart goes into the kidneys.
In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack, but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
The average human heart beats 3.6 million times a year.
Elephants can die of a broken heart if their mate dies.
Giraffe hearts pump twice as hard as a cow’s heart to get blood to its brain.
A female’s heart is smaller than a male’s by about 25%. Because of this, the female heart has to beat around six times more than the male heart to pump the correct amount of blood around the body.
You can die laughing. Several people have, typically due to intense laughter causing a heart attack or suffocation. Comedy shows should come with a warning.
Being bored is a ‘high arousal state’ physiologically. This is because when you’re bored your heart rate increases.
Your heart beats an average of 100,000 times each day.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can. By slowing their heart rates, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. Dolphins need to come up for air after about ten minutes.
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. They also have an open circulatory system, which means they have no arteries and their organs float directly in blood.
Your heart beats 100,000 times a day. A fun fact for when you feel dead inside: your body is working hard to keep you from being dead on the outside.
A man once won a horse race after he died. This one will have you saying, “What the fact?!” but this dark fun fact takes “winning spirit” to another level. Frank Hayes was a jockey who suffered a fatal heart attack mid-race. However, his horse still led and finished the race in first place. As such, Hayes was the first and only jockey to win a race posthumously in 1923.
A shrimp’s heart is in its head. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you can’t choose between following your head or your heart? Well, it seems shrimp have an evolutionary advantage when it comes to tough decisions. Kidding aside, one of the fun facts about shrimps is that their hearts are literally in their heads. Specifically, it is found in the thorax just behind the head – but they are covered in the same shell segment.
A blue whale’s heartbeat can be heard from two miles away. Contrary to popular belief, a blue whale’s heart isn’t as big as a Volkswagen beetle. However, it is still huge at 5 ft in length, 4 ft in width, and standing at 5 ft tall. This massive organ weighs about 181 kg.
A jockey from 1923 managed to finish a race after dying. During the middle of a race, the jockey suffered from a heart attack. However, his horse was able to finish the race on its own and won. This event in history is the first and only time it has ever occurred since.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day. The average heart rate is 80 bpm.
Antares is 60,000 times larger than the sun. Antares, often referred to as “the heart of the scorpion” due to its location in the Scorpius constellation, is a red supergiant star. The name “Antares” is derived from the ancient Greek term “Anti-Ares,” which means “rival of Mars” because of its similar reddish hue to the planet Mars.
Humans have five vital organs. Without any of these organs, a human being cannot survive. These organs include the heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and the brain.
A human thumb has its pulse. The reason for this is because there is a large artery located in the thumb. This artery has a pulse different from the heart, which is why nurses use their middle and index fingers to take a patient’s pulse.
Your left lung is not as big as the right lung. The reason why is so that the right lung can make room for the liver. The left lung is narrower because it needs to make room for the heart.
The heartbeat of a blue whale can be heard from two miles away. This mammal is the largest on the entire planet and weighs over 150 tons. Its heart is roughly the size of a small car and weighs over 1,300 pounds. The blue whale’s heart only beats 8-10 times per minute.
The human brain is 78% water. Up to 60% of the adult human body is made up of water. Research has indicated that both the human brain and heart are around 73-78% water.
The Titanic was made in Belfast. Here’s one of our best you-know facts about the famous Titanic ship. The ship was designed by Eric Kuhne who died from a suspected heart attack. Building the ship took almost 3 years to complete.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Sloths can slow their heart rates. When they do, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. On the other hand, dolphins need to come up to the surface to breathe after 10 minutes.
When you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Ever let out a sneeze so hard, you feel like everything stopped for a moment? Well, your heart does stop when you sneeze, but only briefly. There’s another one of the WTF facts you could’ve gone without knowing.
The human heart can squirt blood 30 feet away. When the heart pumps blood throughout our system, it creates pressure so strong that when our arteries face sudden trauma, blood squirts out.
People in New England thought tuberculosis was vampirism. The 19th century was the height of the “New England Vampire Panic.” during this time, people thought that “consumption” (what they called Tuberculosis) was spread by vampires. People would even dig up Tuberculosis victims and stake them through the heart. Not a fan of Twilight, it seems.
The heart symbol was inspired by ancient birth control. Do you remember how shocked you were when you discovered in biology class that our hearts weren’t shaped like the cute symmetrical shape we see everywhere? Your next question probably would’ve been, “Well, how did they come up with that butt shape?” A theory suggests that the shape came from the silphium, a type of now-extinct plant that the ancient Greeks and Romans consumed for medicine, food, and birth control. Silphium seeds were shaped like our modern heart icon.
Peyton List is a philanthropist. She uses her platform to give back to society and raise awareness for causes close to her heart, such as environmental conservation and youth empowerment.
In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack mid-race. His horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the Middle Ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. Chocolate consists of an ingredient called theobromine (similar to caffeine) that is toxic to dogs. Dogs are not as capable of breaking it down or metabolizing theobromine as humans can. Theobromine majorly affects a dog’s central nervous system, heart and kidneys.
People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Your heart doesn’t stop completely but, it may slow down or skip a beat. But it has nothing to worry about.
A prawn or shrimp’s heart is in their heads.
Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
A shrimp’s heart is in its head. If that wasn’t interesting enough, due to the nature of their open circulatory system, shrimp have no arteries so their organs just float around in blood!
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Dolphins need to come up for air every 10 minutes, but by slowing their heart rate, sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes!
You can die laughing. Sadly, intense laughter can trigger a heart attack or suffocation.
The heart of a shrimp is in its head. Because of their open circulatory system, there are no arteries in shrimp, and so their organs are floating around in their blood. They also have other vital organs such as their ventral nerve cord and stomach because the head is safer than their tail.
The heartbeat of a blue whale can be detected from 2 miles away. The blue whale’s heart also weighs 400 pounds.
People can die laughing. Intense laughter can cause suffocation or a heart attack.
The only muscle that never tires is the heart.
If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times!
The human heart beats 115,000 times a day.
Your heart beats about 115,000 times a day.
Your heart beats about 115,000 every day.
A “glisk” is sunlight that is glimpsed through a break in the clouds, a fleeting glance at a glittering sight, a brief glow of warmth from a fire that’s burned low. It can also mean a sudden flash of hope in the heart.
Research has found that people who swear tend to be more honest. While society rejects those who utilise profanity on a general level, many people still swear worse than sailors if given the opportunity. A researcher from Stanford University was inquisitive about the connection between swearing and expressing one’s true feelings. Eventually, he concluded that there was a direct link between those who swear to their heart’s content and those who are generally more honest.
The heart of the blue whale, the largest animal on Earth, is five feet long and weighs 400 pounds. The whale in total weighs 40,000 pounds.
For comparison, an elephant’s heart weighs around 30 pounds. And a human heart? A mere 10 ounces.
The hardest working muscle in your body is your heart—it pumps more than 2,000 gallons of blood a day and beats more than 2.5 billion times in a 70-year lifespan.
There is a machine that can predict heart attacks. Researchers “trained” a machine-learning algorithm that was able to predict heart attacks. It can predict heart attacks up to four hours before they happen – with 80% accuracy.
The first known example of “modern style” graffiti is found in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus. The graffiti shows a handprint that somewhat resembles a heart, along with a footprint and a number. It is thought that this indicated that a brothel was nearby.
Prediction of death. Mark Twain kind of predicted his death. In 1909, he said: ‘I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt, “Now there are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together”.’ He died of a heart attack on 21 April 1910 – one day after the comet had come again and appeared at its brightest. Halley’s comet only passes by Earth approximately every 76 years and has been the subject of a string of predictions since 1705.
Daylight saving time does more than make people lose an hour of sleep. It can have some pretty concerning health effects. Studies have linked daylight saving time with an uptick in heart attacks, car crashes, and mining injuries. The extra hour of daylight is good for koalas, though: Researchers found that koala-car collisions went down by up to 11 per cent during daylight saving time.
Import of haggis to the US has been banned since the 70s: Scottish haggis is a sheep’s stomach filled with the sheep’s liver, heart and lungs, as well as oatmeal, suet, stock, onions and various spices. This dish has been forbidden in the United States of America since 1971. The reason for this is that the U.S. Department of Agriculture believes that lungs should not be saved for use as human food. The lungs of a sheep can contain bacteria, so the ban is in place with food safety in mind.