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72 New facts that you don't know

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                   WHAAAAAAAAT ? 1. Chocolate milk was  invented  in Ireland. 2. Try to breathe and swallow at the same time. You can't. 3. The girlfriend of the guy who founded Match.com  left him  for a man she met on Match.com. 4. This is what it looks like when a star meets a black hole: Via  space.com 5. Ketchup used to be sold as  medicine . 6. The birthday of the oldest pereson on Earth, Misao Okawa, is closer to the date the constitution was ratified than now. 7. Also, the day that person was born, there was a completely different set of people on Earth. 8. Coconuts kill more  people  than sharks every year. So do cows. 9. German is the second most spoken  language  in North Dakota. 10. Norway once  knighted  a penguin. Reuters (The penguin’s full name is Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav.) 11. The official state VEGETABLE of  Oklahoma  is the watermelon. 12. The official  Space Jam  website has not changed since 1

What It Means to Be Loving

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 While many of us may have sensed it intuitively, there is now science behind the statement that “love is all you need.” A 75-year longitudinal  study  by Harvard researchers recently revealed that love itself is the one true key to a happy and fulfilling life. While love seems to be a universally valued attribute, defining love in behavioral terms can be a challenging undertaking. As the Harvard study’s lead researcher, Dr. George Vaillant, wrote of his team’s findings, there are two essential ingredients proven to correlate with a happy existence: “One is love. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away.” While many of us believe we would like to be in love, we face many hurdles in taking the actions that allow love to flow freely throughout our lives and relationships. We have many ways of defending ourselves against love, and struggle to give and receive love with ease, openness and vulnerability. With love being so closely conne