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Red blood cells are found in blood and after being pumped by the heart they travel through your body carrying oxygen and removing carbon dioxide. They get oxygen in the lungs and leave the carbon dioxide there at the same time. It takes roughly 5 minutes for a cell to return to the heart. The red blood cell is not able to reproduce and it has a life expectancy of 90 days. That means that 90 days from now all of your red blood cells will have been broken down and their components recycled into new ones. Pretty cool, eh? The journey will change dramatically if you get cut, at this point they spill out on the floor and make a mess. People call this a 'wound'. If you jugular gets 'wounded' you may lose so many red blood cells that you die from a lack of oxygen to your brain and body. Furthermore blood makes a terrible mess on the ground and is very difficult to remove from the trunk of a car.

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