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This Veritasium episode features curious biological laws about how metabolic rates scale non-linearly (but surprisingly predictably) with regard to mass, which implies that every mammal enjoys about 1,000,000,000 heartbeats before dying, except for humans who in recent years have far exceeded that natural lifespan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9Lw250spc #Biology #Animals #Longevity #Aging #MetabolicRate #Heartbeats #Scale #Mathematics

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