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Human blood vessels could wrap around the Earth more than twice.

Why it is true

If we stretched all the arteries, veins, and capillaries of an adult, they would reach about one hundred thousand kilometres, which is more than twice the circumference of the equator.

Source: Cardiovascular Data

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