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Like laughter, s*x can be considered a healthy workout—strengthening the heart, lowering blood pressure and reducing your risk of heart disease. Studies also show that people with active and fulfilling s*x lives are less likely to experience a heart attack and more likely to live longer following a cardiac event. And for more helpful information, sign up for our daily newsletter.

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When you laugh, you increase blood flow to your heart, improving circulation and reducing your risk of heart disease. Laughter also lowers blood pressure, reduces inflammation, boosts the immune system, and even burns calories

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Each beat consists of two cycles: the heart contracting in order to pump blood out to the lungs, organs, and other body systems—then, it immediately expanding to refill again. That's a lot of action for under one second.

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Those double beats are actually caused by the heart's four valves closing in succession during a cardiac cycle, which is one heartbeat. Not everyone has the lub-dub rhythm—heart murmurs and other heart conditions can create different sounds. And to learn how your body lets you know there's a problem, check out 30 Warning Signs Your Heart Is Trying to Send You.

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This is typically true for both men and women. However, on average, men's hearts usually weigh a couple of ounces more than women's. Want to know how heavy your heart can weigh and still be considered "normal"? Use this tool provided by Northwestern Medical School.

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And a child's heart is about the size of a clenched fist. The blue whale's heart is roughly the size of an oil drum, and it's the largest in the world, weighing around 400 pounds. The smallest heart on Earth belongs to the fairy fly at just 0.2 millimeters long.

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Over the course of one day, that works out to about 2,000 gallons of blood. During an average lifetime, the equivalent of 1 million barrels of blood will be pumped through every living tissue in your body. There are just a few parts of your body that don't have blood flow, including the corneas and cartilage. And for more incredible facts about the human anatomy, check out 33 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About Your Own Body.

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That's more than two times the distance around Earth. On average, it takes only 45 seconds for blood to travel from your heart throughout the body's extensive roadmap of arteries, veins and capillaries.

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Women have hearts that are about two-thirds the size of a man's and a heart rate that averages 78 beats per minute. With a smaller heart that pumps less blood per beat, a woman's heart needs to beat faster to achieve the same output as a man's. Fetal heart rates are even faster—about 150 beats per minute. And for more things you should know about your physical well-being as you age, check out 40 Things Every Woman Over 40 Should Know About Her Health.

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That's 35 million beats in a year, 100 thousand beats in a day, 4,167 beats per hour, and about 70 beats per minute. And for things you are doing that are putting this essential organ in jeopardy, check out 20 Ways You're Raising Your Risk of a Heart Attack Without Knowing It

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