and traditions
http://www.stvalentinesday.org/valentines-day-fun-fact.html
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/valentine.htm
● In order of popularity, Valentine's Day cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts and pets.
● About 3% of pet owners give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets.
● In Verona (Italia), where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet are received every year on Valentine's Day.
● The oldest love poem was written in a clay tablet, from the times of the inventors of writing, around 3500 B.C.
● About 1 billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged in US each year. That's the biggest card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.
● Approximately 110 million roses, the majority red, are sold and delivered in a three-day time period.