Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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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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One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
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Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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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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Twenty nine percent of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for a life long mate.
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Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
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