14 FUN FACTS ABOUT VALENTINES DAY
1. More than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold for Valentine's Day each year.
2. On Average, men shell out $130 each on candy, cards, jewelry, flowers and dates. That's more than double what women commit to spending.
3. Worldwide, over 50 million roses are given for Valentine's Day each year.
4. Women purchase 85% of all valentines.
5. 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27 percent are women.
6. In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentine would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. "To wear your heart on your sleeve" now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
7. The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addresses to Juliet every Valentine's Day.
8. Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentine's Day candy box in the late 1800s.
9. Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, an "Improvement in Telegraphy", on Valentine's Day, 1876.
10. In Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St Valentine's Day to make them dream of their future husband.
11. In the middle Ages, people believed that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would become your spouse.
12. Teachers receive the most Valentine's Day cards.
13. England's King Henry VIII declared February 14th a holiday for the first time.
14. Casanova,
well known as "The World's Greatest Lover," ate chocolate to make him
virile.
Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Camber College!
