Because I have no life, and because I wanted to update with something, I searched for useless facts about the word love. This is what it returned...


The itch from a mosquito bite can be soothed by cutting open a clove of garlic and rubbing it on the bite.

Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character.

The total number of episodes for the sitcom "I Love Lucy" was 180.

According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.

Tomatoes were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them.

In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

In the mid 1600's, perfume gloves were popular in France.

In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."

Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for "Ladies Love Cool James."

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

Two out of five people end up marrying their first love.