10 Facts YDK About Dating, Sex, Breakups and Divorce

1. The phrase “hook-up” was first used in Nena and George O’Neill’s 1972 tract, Open Marriage.

2.Broken heart syndrome, or stress cardiomyopathy, consists in a weakening of the heart muscles due to the unexpected death of a loved one or an unexpected breakup.

3. Emotional pain of the sort experienced after an unexpected breakup is a kind of pre-stress cardiomyopathy. When the body bombards the heart and muscles with stress chemicals, the cells of the heart “freeze” and the muscles “tense up”. This leads to a release of pain chemicals, which then travel through nocireceptor fibers to the spinal cord and then the brain. Finally, this triggers a pain sensation.

4. The world’s youngest person to give birth to a child was five years old.


5. A relationships survey conducted by Yahoo! Personals discovered that 50 percent of singles seriously consider changing their relationship status between Christmas and Valentine’s Day.


6. According to a study from Loyola University, Facebook is blamed for 1 in 5 divorces, and it’s the primary source of online evidence.


7.In Colorado, it is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep, according to www.realpolice.net.


8.Lisa Sparks holds the world record for having had intercourse with most men in one day: 919 men.


9.Condoms were invented in Egypt 3000 BC and were probably made of animal hide.

10. 43 percent of marriages break up within 15 years.

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