Valentine's Day Fun Facts
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* In order of popularity, Valentine's Day cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts and pets.
* Parents receive 1 out of every 5 valentines.
* About 3% of pet owners will give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets.
* Approximately 110 million roses, the majority red, will be sold and delivered within a three-day time period.
* In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines 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.
* The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.
* The oldest surviving love poem till date is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians, inventors of writing, around 3500 B.C
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