10 Interesting Facts About Valentine's Day You Didn't Know

[Bea123]

Valentine's Day conversation starters...Did you know?

Posted by Girls Ask Guys on Tuesday, February 9, 2016

As most of you probably know, Valentine's Day (also known as the Feast of Saint Valentine) is an annual holiday that celebrates romance, couples, lovers, and includes chocolates, flowers, and cards for gifts. Of course, there's some history behind it, which we'll get into later. First, some interesting facts you didn't know about Valentine's Day.

1. Over 1 million Valentine's cards are received on February the 14th in the US.

Yup, you read that correctly! 1,000,000 cards sent in the mail (sometimes days before) for everyone in the world to show their love and appreciation!

2. 220,000 is the average number of wedding proposals on the 14th each year.

The most romantic day to propose to your significant other-Valentine's Day!

3. Teachers receive the most Valentine's cards!

That's right, students show their appreciation for their teachers by sending them Valentine's Day cards!

4. Percent of Various Gifts Received on Valentine's Day:

Candy 47.5 %
Flowers 34.3 %
Cards 52.1 %
Jewelry 17.3 %
Dining / Eating Out 34.6 %
Clothing 14.4 %
Gift Cards 12.6 %
Other Gifts 11.2 %

5. 15 percent of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.

Believe it or not, those single woman out there on February the 14th do send themselves flowers!

6. About 8 billion chocolate hearts are produced for Valentines Day, and over $1 million spent on candy & chocolates!

That’s enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Arizona 20 times and back again!

7. The red rose was the favorite flower of Venus, the Roman goddess of love.

Red roses are considered the flower of love because the color red stands for strong romantic feelings. Some history behind the color red and the rose-they both signify love!

8. For all Single people out there on Valentine's Day, there's a day for you too!

SAD= Single Awareness Day

But don't be too disapointed! Tomorrow is half-price candy day!

9. The X symbol was used for people who couldn't write their names, so therefore signed in front of a witness with an X.

It was then used as a 'kiss' to show their sincerity. xoxo

10. Literally wear 'your heart on your sleeve'!

In the Middle Ages, the tradition was to draw names from a bowl to see who would be their Valentine! Then, they would wear this name on their sleeves for a week for everyone to see! Thats where the expression 'wear your heart on your sleeve' came from!

So I hope you all enjoyed this interesting facts & some history behind Valentine's Day and learned something from it too! Enjoy your February 14th!!

XOXO

[In-sight-ful]

I would hate being proposed to on Valentines day, like you can't come up with your own unique date? You have to use a cheesy date that I am going to share with 220,000 other women? No! Put a little effort into it!

[Bea123]

Hmm good point 😜

[Waffles731]

I always love the traditional story about how the priest was martyred for performing weddings for soldiers.

[OlderAndWiser]

"The red rose was the favorite flower of Venus, the Roman goddess of love." How do you know this?

[Bea123]

because i did research?

[OlderAndWiser]

Venus is a fictional character.

[RedAmulet]

In the mythology that's what her favourite flower was I guess

[Bea123]

@RedAmulet yes, thats right greek MYTHOLOGY

[Dargil]

11. (Saint) Valentine's day honors the martyring of a Catholic Bishop who was executed by the Roman emperor for performing late night assembly line marriages to prevent Christian men from being drafted into the Legions. Marriage had been outlawed. Valentine made the ultimate sacrifice for love.

[Bea123]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[mikemx55]

On nr 2 "220,00 is the average num" do you mean 220 000 or 22 000?

And on those 15 %who send flowers to themselves, is it 15 of all women, or 15 of the single ones?

[Bea123]

i meant 220,000 sorry bout that :P and 15% of single woman

[OmaiBakaDayo]

I have another one. The traditional "heart" symbol is actually a symbol representing the female butt. The human heart doesn't like like that. ♡♡♡♡♡

[Bea123]

LOL ok

[experiencedLass]

This is such a cool fact! I always wondered what the origins of the ♡ was.
Through I find an anatomically correct heart to much more beautiful

[AleDeEurope]

"15 percent of U. S. women send themselves flowers" Hahahaahaha that's so pathetic xD Oh my god, I can't stop laughing hahaha xD

Interesting Take, and funny too xD

[Bluemax]

I knew about teachers and Valentines Day. I gain weight every February.

[Bea123]

Haha nice

[Soshy]

I thought the lolly said '' teachers make learning suck'' lol

[Bea123]

lolol

[SammyGurl]

I knew about the teachers one, my Mom is a teacher, my brothers loved it when she brought candy home from school. She doesn't eat candy that often, they do!!

[Frost_Byt3]

Actually, Shakespear invented the phrase "wear you heart on your sleeve". But perhaps he just took the ritual you stated above and used it to mean something different.

[lilalilalila]

Thank you very much because of your sharings.. 👍💙

[Maxemeister]

Why is your take better than mine? BLASPHEMY

Lol I laughed at the women sending themselves flowers one

[Bea123]

haha maybe cuz u spent 5 min on urs i spent an hour on mine -_-

[Maxemeister]

THIRTY* YOU CULTURELESS SWINE U

(It was sarcasm, GAG. please don't freeze my account)

[Bea123]

haha i hope they do <3

[Maxemeister]

Lol they already did "technically"

[Anonymous]

11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia

You're welcome.

[nachosaresexy]

Cool stuff cool stuff

[howardque]

Really fun take, well done

[rjroy3]

Yea, I'll look over them. Responded here because your settings won't allow me to message you

[howardque]

@rjroy3 Ok perfect. Thanks!

I'll message you then. It might go out to 8 messages cos of word limits. I'll provide a context/background (including a summary of previous texts), the actual text and then my question, is that ok?

[ChocoLada]

Very interesting MyTake, I like those facts :P

[Zorax]

Interesting facts, nice Take :D

[Ikl23]

But it is actually a catholic holiday?

[Bea123]

I do believe so, that it was originally a Catholic holiday before it became worldwide although there are still some parts of the world that don't celebrate it

[prettychik115]

Wow very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[ConsultantIsBack]

Hahaha I love this! Great take

[Anonymous]

11. I'll be still single as fuck.