Cards & Gifts:About 1 billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged each year. That's the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.
Teachers receive the most Valentine's Day cards, followed by children, mothers, wives, and then, sweethearts.
73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27% are women.
Approximately 110 million roses, the majority red, will be sold and delivered within a three-day time period.
Only the U.S., Canada, Mexico, France, Australia and the U.K. celebrate 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.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
Consumers over the past few years have spent nearly $650 million annually on Valentine’s Day gifts of flowers, candy, wine, eating out, and jewelry.
Men prefer to give or receive dark chocolate. Women favor milk chocolate.
Kissing facts:
You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss. Good, rich, passionate kissing can help you burn up to 600 calories per hour!
The average person spends two weeks (336 hours) of their life kissing. At an approximate length of one minute each, that’s 20,160 kisses!
Eskimos, Polynesians and Malaysians rub noses instead of kissing.
The scientific name for kissing is philematology.
Kissing can actually be a beauty treatment. Scientific tests show that good kissing helps reduce dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. It also makes your skin glow and your eyes shine.
Babies who are kissed usually have a greater capacity for intimacy later in life.
Our brains have special neurons that help us locate each other’s lips in the dark.
Kissing can relieve headaches. With relaxation, the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain is released. Quality is the key.
Quotes:
"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity" - Henry Van Dyke
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place" - Zora Neale Hurston
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired" - Robert Frost
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life" - Pablo Picasso
"It is never too late to fall in love"- Sandy Wilson
"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without" - Rafael Ortiz
"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know." -Pascal
"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world"-Unknown
"What we love to do we find time to do." -John L. Spalding
"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life." -Leo Buscaglia
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