Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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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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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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Twenty nine percent of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for a life long mate.
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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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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
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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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