40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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The average person will go on a date at least 100 times before they finally marry.
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In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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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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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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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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