For Valentine's Day 2014, an unnamed man sabotaged a special screening of "Beijing Love Story" at a Shanghai cinema by booking every other seat, subsequently preventing couples from sitting together.
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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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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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In 2010, Gary Richmond was beaten into a coma. He woke up with amnesia and no memory of his wife of 20 years. Subsequently, he ended up falling in love with her all over again!
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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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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