1. A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in their body.
2. The most common blood type in Canada is O (Rh Positive).
3. It's not actually the bloodletting of leech therapy that benefits a human...
4. The heart is capable of squirting blood about three feet high.
5. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
6. There are 2.4 trillion blood cells in one pint of blood.
7. Plasma is 90% water.
8. Blood makes up 7% of your body weight.
9. The shelf life of red blood cells is just 42 days.
10. Blood is not actually blue when it's in the body.
11. A human has 600,000 miles of blood vessels.
Up to 5 units of donated blood may be needed to help one cancer patient.
