Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear.
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The single biggest predictor of love is proximity.
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A Korean man called Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with his large, huggable pillow and married it.
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In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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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 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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According to the New York Times, a study conducted during the 1980's found that men who kiss their wives before leaving for work live longer, get into fewer car accidents, and have a higher income than married men who don't.
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The typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.
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