- There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
- A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."
- The world's most expensive divorce was estimated at US$2.5 billion.
- 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.
- No U.S. president has been elected after being divorced except for Ronald Reagan.
- The average divorcee takes almost 18 months to get over the split.
- Couples who live together before engagement have a higher divorce rates than those who wait.
- First marriages that end in a divorce usually last approximately 8 years.
- Einstein's Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife as a divorce settlement.
- Divorce is illegal in the Philippines.
- 75% of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.
- People who endure more than 45-minute commute are 40% more likely to divorce.
- Phil Collins divorced his second wife by fax.
- In 2007, A Bosnian couple divorced after discovering both had an online affair with each other under fake names.
- Whatsapp is cited in nearly half of all Italian divorce proceedings.
- Couples who spend more money on their wedding have a higher divorce rates, a study found.
- Arguing about money is the top predictor of divorce, a study found.
- In Islam, a man may divorce his wife three times, taking her back up after the first two times.
- Mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages overall in the U.S., a study found.
- Ronald Reagan was the only U.S. president to have been divorced.
- Only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world.
- In Malaysia, it's legal to divorce your partner via text message.
- In the UK, if you name the person your spouse was unfaithful with on your divorce papers, they will get copies of the paperwork.
- People who frown in photos are 5 times more likely to get a divorce than those who smile, research says.
- Couples in which one partner spends 10+ hours more than usual at work divorce at twice the average rate.
- Every nation in the world allows its residents to divorce under some conditions except the Philippines and the Vatican City.