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 someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Studies show that the risk of a “secret love” being revealed heightens romantic feelings for the partners, thanks to increased levels of phenylethylamine (PEA).
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When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
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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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People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)
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Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
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