Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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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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One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
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Approximately 141 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged worldwide every year.
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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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In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress made out of 9,999 red roses for his girlfriend and then proposed - 9 in China means forever
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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