FUN FACTS!!!!!

- The heart beats around 3 billion times in the averages person's life

- About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.

- One droplet of blood = about 5 million red blood cells

-It takes 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body

-Red blood cells may live for about 4 months circulating throughout the body

-If you were to lay out all of the arteries, capillaries and veins in one adult, end-to-end, they would stretch about 60,000 miles….That means a person's blood vessels could wrap around the planet approximately 2.5 times!

-As long as the heart continues to receive oxygen, it will keep going, even if separated from the rest of the body.

-"Broken heart syndrome" because it can be caused by an emotionally stressful event, such as the death of a loved one.