Love Trivia
Caesar was 54, Cleopatra 21 when they were romancing...
In medieval Italy kisses weren't taken -- or given -- lightly. If a man and a woman were seen embracing in public they could be forced to marry.
The longest kiss listed in the Guinness Book of World Records lasted an incredible 417 hours.
Husbands who kiss their wives before leaving home in the morning have been documented to live five years longer than those who do not.
The German language contains 30 words that refer to the act of kissing. There is even a word, Nachkuss, for all the kisses that haven't yet been named
2 out of 5 have married their first love.
* Only 4% asked the parents' approval for their bride's hand.
* 1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
* 6% propose over the phone.
Ladies, romance statisticians have calculated that the odds run 70 to one that you won't marry any of the boys in the office where you work. About 100 to one you won't marry your boss, and 1700 to one that you won't marry your doctor.
Honeymoon - The word first appears in the 16th century. The honey is a reference to the sweetness of a new marriage. And the moon is not a reference to the lunar-based month, but rather a bitter acknowledgment that this sweetness, like a full moon, would quickly fade.
The primary ambition of a Zulu's wife is to help her husband acquire sufficient means to buy another wife... so they can split the chores.
Through the years, it has been said that a girl could dream of her future husband on St. Valentine's Eve by sleeping with four bay or laurel leaves pinned to the corners of her pillow. Some believed that lovers stayed faithful as long as each carried half of the same laurel twig. Today, the laurel leaf still represents thoughts of loved ones.
There are numerous practices ladies could perform before retiring to bed--all said to indicate a future love or husband. Girls could arrange their shoes with the heel of one against the instep of another, then dream of the man they'd soon marry
Sleeping with any of the following things under a pillow would bring dreams of one's true love:
*A silver spoon
*A love knot fashioned from wood shavings
*A small ladder made of sticks
*A bit of wedding cake which has been passed through a gold ring three times
*Three pebbles gathered from a place newly visited