Cuddling (or other ‘love’ acts) helps to heal physical wounds faster due to the release of Oxytocin which is proven to reduce swelling.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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Kissing an infection-free partner is good for your teeth!
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In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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