• 2024-07-25
• Facts
• HEART-PUMPING FACT
• 20

Did you know that you have a muscle in your body that has the power to lift a car, the strength to pump 7,500 litres of blood twice around the world in a single day, and the stamina to never take a break?! It’s your heart, an incredible, fist-sized muscle in the centre of your chest. Your heart’s job is to push blood around your body, and it can keep pumping every second of every day for your entire lifetime. Good thing, too, as your life depends on this pump to never take a rest, even when you’re asleep! Take two fingers and push gently into your neck on either side of your windpipe. If your fingers are positioned correctly, you’ll feel a tiny pulse pushing against your fingers each time your heart contracts – keeping you alive. But just how does this powerhouse work…?

A heartbeat is so powerful that it could shoot WATER TWO metres in to the air