One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
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Ten seconds of hugging a day increases levels of oxytocin, which can reduce blood pressure, thus cutting the risk of heart disease.
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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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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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Wearing red increases attraction.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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