
In their new book, The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart (opens in new tab), the brothers Stephen and Thomas Amidon, one a writer and one a cardiologist, have written what they call a "biography of this remarkable machine" — one full of both scientific and literary information about that bodily organ most commonly represented as a red thing shaped like two ears pressed together.
The brothers sent along some fun facts about the heart:
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