08 June 2: Shaadi

Number of different skin tones that members of the South Asian matchmaking site Shaadi.com can register as having: 6

08 May 1: Heartache

Days of ‘heartache leave’ that employees of one Japanese cosmetics company are allowed to take each year: 3

08 March 18: Settlement

$1.7 billion: Estimated amount of the world's largest-ever divorce settlement, between financier Rupert Murdoch and his wife of 32 years, in 2000.

08 March 4: Kissing

‘A recent University at Albany, NY, study that looks at kissing showed men expect lip-locking to lead to sex about half the time; and women only about one-third of the time.’

08 March 2: Casanova

Legendary Italian lover Giacomo Casanova courted his romantic interests with a cup of chocolate instead of champagne.

08 February 27: Savage

In 1991, Dan Savage was living in Madison, Wisconsin, working as a manager at a local video store that specialized in independent film titles. There he befriended Tim Keck, co-founder of The Onion, who announced he was moving to Seattle to help start an alternative weekly newspaper, The Stranger. Savage ‘made the offhand comment that forever altered [his] life: ‘Make sure your paper has an advice column—everybody claims to hate 'em, but everybody seems to read 'em.’

08 February 20: Libido

Feed your libido. ‘Pistachio nuts are really good because they contain an amino acid called arginine, and that's to help both genders to increase their genital circulation to help with sexual functioning.’

December 24: Lavalife

Lavalife dating service sees a 20 per cent spike in traffic as new clients look for a new relationship during what they call ‘the December 26 phenomenon.’ It's the only time of year they see such a change; the rest of the year, traffic is consistent.

October 18: Fertile

‘Lap dancers earn more when they are most fertile.’

September 24: Fidelity

‘Women initiate 66 percent of divorces between partners over 40.’ Love is noble, love is hard and women cheat just as readily as men.