23 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About Your Heart

As you're reading this, blood is pumping from your heart throughout your entire body. Put your fingers on the inside of one wrist and you can feel the pulse of blood as it flows from your heart through your veins. But just how much blood is moving through your body, and how fast and far is it traveling? The answers to all those questions are actually quite surprising—there is a lot more blood traveling a lot faster than you could probably imagine. What other things about your heart will you find fascinating? How about the fact that broken hearts are a real thing or that your heart can actually survive outside your body (for a bit)? Read on for more astonishing facts about your heart. And for things that you need to stop doing for the good of your ticker, check out The 20 Worst Habits That Are Destroying Your Heart.