True facts about LOVE
Couple in Love
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- Cuddling triggers the same neurological reaction as taking painkillers.
Beautiful face |
- A beautiful face attracts more partners than a beautiful body, according to a scientific survey.
Heart Symbol |
- The heart symbol was first used to denote love in the 1250. Prior to that, it represented foliage.
- It's scientifically proven: being in love makes you a less productive person.
Romantic couple |
- Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.
Supermarket Love |
- 2% of couples have fallen in love in a supermarket, according to a survey.
- A heartbroken Argentine farmer spent decades cultivating a guitar-shaped forest to honor his late wife.
Love Marriage |
- Marriage started shifting from arranged to love-based marriages in the 18th Century.
- In 2014, a prisoner escaped a detention center in Arizona to spend Valentine's Day with his girlfriend.
- In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was done to declare one's love.
Online Love |
- 23% of the couples who meet through online dating end up marrying.
- There are about 3 million first dates every day worldwide.
- Men are more likely to say "I love you" first than women are, a study found.
- "LOL" used to mean "lots of love" before the Internet.
- "Erotomania" is a psychological disorder in which the affected people believe a famous person is in love with them.
Love Commandos |
- In India, there is a vigilante group called the "Love Commandos" that offers protection from harassment to couples from different castes who fall in love.
King & Queen Of Norway Love |
- King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
- The Greek language has 4 words for love. Agape: Charitable love; Eros: Sexual love; Philia: Love between friends; and Storge: Family love.
- Sanskrit has 96 words for "love"ancient Persian has 80 and English only one.
- During an orgasm, the brain is flooded with oxytocin, a possible explanation for why (some) couples like to cuddle after.
- Biological models of sex tend to view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst.
- There's a Chinese deity, Tu'er Shen ("rabbit deity"), who manages the love and sex between homosexual men.
- Recovering from a break-up is like a kicking an addiction to a drug, researchers found from looking at the brain scans of the broken-hearted.
- Cuddling with your partner can significantly relieve pain and improve the healing of bruises due to the increased release in oxytocin.
- A survey revealed that 52% of women say their husband is not their soulmate.
- Looking at a photo of a loved one reduces pain by 44%, a study found.
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