Valentine's Day Trivia

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110 million roses (mostly red) will be sold for Valentine's Day.

15 percent of women in the United States send themselves flowers on Valentines Day.

1 billion Valentine's Day cards are given every year.

Over 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolates are sold every Valentine's Day.

The first Valentine's Day candy box was invented by Richard Cadbury in the late 1800's.

Hallmark makes over 1330 different Valentine's Day cards.

To dream of her future husband, a single woman in the seventeenth century ate a hard-boiled egg and pinned five bay leaves to her pillow before going to sleep on Valentine's eve.

Verona, Italy, where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set, receives nearly a thousand Valentines addressed to Juliet every February.

Reprinted with permission from The Love Almanac
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