23 Romance Facts

1. The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.

2. Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.

3. The average person will go on a date at least 100 times before they finally marry.

4. Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.

5. In Finland, Valentine's Day is called "Ystävänpäivä" which translates into "Friend's day".

6. In Korea, if you do not receive any gift on Valentine's day then all the singles go to Korean restaurants and eat black noodles to celebrate (or mourn) their single status.

7. 40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.

8. It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.

9. Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.

10. Approximately 141 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged worldwide every
year.

11. Studies show that the risk of a “secret love” being revealed heightens romantic feelings for the partners, thanks to increased levels of phenylethylamine (PEA).

12. The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!

13. 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!)

14. Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.


15. Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.

16. One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.

17. When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.

18. Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.

19. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.

20. 'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.

21. In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.

22. 8 out of 10 people think that the first kiss indicates how the rest of the relationship will be.

23. Twenty nine percent of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for a life long mate.


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Number 3 is a bloody lie.
Number 7? God forbid? I am celebrating bachelorhood everyday and only God knows till when.
Number 8 should be true. After all, study shows that elephants and whales could die from broken heart.
Number 11? Hmmhmm.
Lol@number 12. Could that be real?
Definitely@number 16.
Hahahaha. Number 19 is damn hilarious. I would kiss my spouse in future 20 times a day
23 sounds crazy!
Where the hell did you get this list?
And Op, want to hear your view on this article....

idnoble135: Number 3 is a bloody lie.
Number 7? God forbid? I am celebrating bachelorhood everyday and only God knows till when.
Number 8 should be true. After all, study shows that elephants and whales could die from broken heart.
Number 11? Hmmhmm.
Lol@number 12. Could that be real?
Definitely@number 16.
Hahahaha. Number 19 is damn hilarious. I would kiss my spouse in future 20 times a day
23 sounds crazy!
Where the hell did you get this list?
And Op, want to hear your view on this article....

My view is the title of the thread

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21. In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.

Assuming this practice held on till today, Naija guys and their wayward lips for hear am.

If one is to go by all the rules, do's and dont's, belief and disbelief posted on NL.
I bet one would have seconds left to achieve meaninful things in life.

xynerise:
My view is the title of the thread

hope you kiss your wife every morning?

xynerise: 23 Romance Facts

8. It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.

now u must be joking!!!

People who make use of their left hand while writing, eating, e.t.c; tilt their head to the left when they wanna kiss.

It's really funny.... isn't it?

idnoble135:
hope you kiss your wife every morning?

More than a kiss

xynerise:
More than a kiss

every morning? Thats romantic...

Weird facts!

yuzedo: soooooooo how can dis infomation help me to link a romantick punny in live?!

Is Rita Dominic own not enough??
#cheater

El Guapo: Papa Anderson, no be everything U see for Facebook u go Copy come paste for NL

What is facebook?

Face book is another name for toothbrush

*yawns* sooooooooo

100 dates b4 getting married.and I haven't gone on any.
Omo,dt one na ogun aye oh.

This antelope man don dey old. Wetin be dis

alutacontinua: This antelope man don dey old. Wetin be dis

Wetin? Abeg go play