Valentine's Trivia
Interesting, albeit useless, factos about Valentine's Day courtesy of BrainCandy
About 3% of pet owners will give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets.
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.
In Victorian times it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentine's Day card.
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.
Wearing a wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand dates back to ancient Egypt, where it was believed that the vein of love ran from this finger directly to the heart.
15% of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.
The greatest number of couples to have kissed in the same place at the same time was 1,420, at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, US, on Feb 14, 1996.