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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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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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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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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In Korea, if you do not receive any gift on Valentine's day then all the singles go to Korean restaurants and eat black noodles to celebrate (or mourn) their single status.
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