I have to say, the human body is an amazing organ. Today, I had the pleasure of donating blood to the Red Cross. After I answered all the fun questions with topics such as paying for sex, paying for sex in Africa, or paying for drugs with sex; they proceeded to take a pint of my blood.
The human body contains on average 5.6 pints of blood at any one point in time. So it blows my mind that they can take out almost one-fifth of my blood supply and I can walk out of there as fine as can be.
Some other facts you may find interesting:
In one day, your blood travels nearly 12,000 miles.
Your heart beats around 35 million times per year.
Your heart pumps a million barrels of blood during the average lifetime.
Donating blood can save potentially up to three lives each time you do it. Along with the fact of knowing that you are one hell of a model American, donating blood comes with free grub. You are required to stay there 15 minutes after finishing and eat snacks and drink juice(if they ever have white grape peach juice, I highly recommend it).
So, go to redcross.org and find a blood drive somewhere in your area.
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