Valentine’s Day, a day about you and your loved one, is celebrated in many countries. These are some fun facts about this special day.

• Next to Christmas, Valentine’s Day has the most cards exchanged for seasonal card sending, at about one billion cards.
• 85% of all valentines are purchased by women.
• 1 out of 5 valentines go to parents every year.
• 3% of all pet owners will give their pet a Valentine’s Day gift.
• In the middle ages, young men and women would draw names from a bowl to see who their valentine would be. They would wear the person’s name on their sleeve for a week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for people to tell how you are feeling.
• Verona, an Italian city, where Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare lived, receives about one thousand letters addressed to Juliet a year.
• Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentine’s Day candy box in the 1800’s.

Valentine’s Day Superstitions

It is said that the kind of bird a girl sees on Valentine’s Day predicts the man she is going to marry.

• Sparrow- poor man
• Owl- stay single
• Crossbill- an argumentative man
• Robin- crime fighter
• Flock of doves- happy, peaceful marriage

Other Valentine’s Day superstitions:

• On Valentine’s Day the first man’s name you see on the TV or hear on the radio, will be the name of your future husband.
• If you see a squirrel on Valentine’s Day, you will marry a cheapskate who takes all your money.
• If you find a glove, on this day, it is said that your future love will have the other glove.

Fun fact credit to www.stvalentinesday.org