The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
212
Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
235
Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.
103
Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
14
Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
88
The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
44
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.
27
When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
130