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You won't believe some of
these fun facts!
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Coffee Break
Romance
It's reported that more than 10,000
marriages
a year now are directly traceable
to romances
which begin during coffee
breaks.
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Engagement Lengths
The
average engagement lasts 6 months.
First
Love
Two out of five marry their first
love.
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Wearing a Wedding
Ring
The reason that the engagement ring and
wedding band
is worn on the fourth finger of
the left hand is because
the ancient
Egyptians thought that the "vein of love"
ran
from this finger directly to the
heart.
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Go Ahead and Kiss
A team
of medical experts in Virginia contends that
you're more likely
to catch the common cold
virus by shaking hands than by
kissing.
Having Sex?
According to a
survey, the second most popular reason
for
having sex is to produce a baby.
Strange
But True
In Pennsylvania, Ministers are
forbidden from performing
marriages when
either the bride or groom is
drunk.
Median Age for Marriage
In
1970, brides were on average 20.8 years old when
they married,
while grooms were 23.2.
Americans are now marrying later in life.
In
the year 2000, brides were on average
25.1
with their grooms averaging
26.8.
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Morning Kissing
Studies
indicate that a man who kisses his wife
good-bye
when he leaves for work every
morning averages a higher
income than those
who don't. Husbands who exercise the
rituals
of affection tend to be more painstaking,
more
stable, more methodical, thus, higher
earners. Studies also
show that men who kiss
their wives before leaving in the
morning
live 5 years longer than those who
don't.
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Oldest Bride
Minnie
Munro became the world's oldest bride when she
married
Dudley Reid at the age of 102 on May
31, 1991. Reid, the groom,
was 83 years
old.
Oldest Groom
Harry Stevens was
103 when he married 84 year old Thelma Lucas
at
the Caravilla Retirement Home in Wisconsin
on December 3, 1984.
Phone
Proposals
6% of men proposed to their
girlfriends over the phone.
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Romance Novels
Romance
Novels are more popular than
ever. 53% of all
mass market paperback
books sold in this
country are Romances.
Romance novels earn
more money in the
USA yearly than baseball!
So, what's
the national
pastime?
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Sex Manuals
The oldest
sex manuals were published in China 5,000 years
ago.
The Longest
Engagement
Sixty-seven years, according to
the Guinness Book of World Records.
The happy
couple finally wed at age
82!
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