Be Mine - Valentines Contest time!
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The most popular flower on Valentines Day is a single red rose surrounded with babys breath. The red rose was the flower of Venus, the Roman goddess of love.
The saying wearing your heart on your sleeve is from the Middle Ages. Boys at this time would draw names of girls to see who would be their Valentine and then wear the name pinned on their sleeve for a week.
Richard Cadbury produced the first box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day in the late 1800s.
2013 - The National Retail Federation estimates that U.S. consumers will spend $18.6 billion on the holiday.
About 8 billion candy hearts will be produced this year; that’s enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Arizona 20 times and back again.
Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, an "Improvement in Telegraphy", on Valentine's Day, 1876.
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