CPR Facts

Your heart is about the size of your fist.

Your heart weighs less than a pound.

Your heart beats about 115,000 times each day.

Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day.

The American pygmy shrew has the fastest heartbeat at 1,200 beats per minute.

Whales have the largest heart.

Giraffes have lopsided heart. The left side is bigger to be able to pump blood up the long neck to the brain.