24 Weird and Wild Facts About Marriage

Fact number 1

The average married couple has sex 68.5 times a year, which is slightly more than once a week.

Fact number  2

75% of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.

Fact number 3

1 in every 5 couples has a sexless marriage, having less than 10 encounters a year.

Fact number 4

80% of all  marriages in history  were between second  cousins or closer.

 Fact number 5

The word "bride" comes from an old proto-germanic word meaning "to cook".

Fact number 6

In France, you can marry a dead person.

 Fact number 7

Einstein, Darwin,  Allan Poe &  Saddam Hussein,  all married their  first cousins.

Fact number 8

About 300 couples marry in Las Vegas every day.

Fact number 9

A man married a dog in India as atonement.

Fact number 10

People who endure more than 45-minute commute are 40% more likely to divorce.

 Fact number 11

A 99-year-old man divorced his 96-year-old wife after 77 years of marriage because he discovered an affair she had in the 1940s.

Fact number 12

First marriages that end in a divorce usually last approximately 8 years.

 Fact number 13

A woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel "married" the Eiffel Tower in 2007.

Fact number 14

Couples who live together before engagement have higher divorce rates than those who wait.

Fact number 15

Most married couples are happiest in their third year of marriage.

Fact number 16

There are  100 divorces every hour in the U.S.

 Fact number 17

In Iran, a law from 2013 allows Men to marry their 13-year-old adopted daughters.

Fact number 18

Nero, the Roman Emperor, married a man, one of his freedmen,
taking the role of the bride.

 Fact number 19

The tradition of exchanging wedding rings goes back to ancient Egyptian times.

Fact number 20

Couples who spend more money on their wedding have higher divorce rates, a study found.

Fact number 21

Interracial marriage was banned in the U.S. for much of its history: from 1776 to 1967.

Fact number 22

Mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages overall in the U.S., a study found.

 Fact number 23

Marital infidelity was punishable with jail in South Korea until 2015.

Fact number 24

Couples who spend less on their wedding tend to have longer-lasting marriages.