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How much blood can the heart pump?

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Did you know that the heart pumps 5 liters of blood every minute ?

In a lifetime, a person could fill a million and a half barrels of blood. The heart pumps without rest about 80 times a minute even before we are born, when we are still in the placenta.

Over the course of a day, an average of 100,000 heartbeats will pump around 8,000 liters of blood. If the heart were a fountain, its power would make the blood reach 10 meters in height.

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