Valentine's Day is a holiday that is celebrated every year and is well known to all. But does everyone know the history of the origin of this red day of the calendar? After all, it really is not so romantic ...
1. The most popular version of the origin of the holiday is this: Emperor Claudius was categorically opposed to Roman men marrying in wartime.
Family life has made some warriors weaker and more vulnerable. This position did not suit the bishop Valentine at all, and he secretly married all comers, for which he was subsequently imprisoned and executed.
2. At the time of the Victorian era, to sign a valentine was considered a bad form.
3. According to statistics, about 3% of pet owners on Valentine's Day give their pets some goodies.
4. Every year on Valentine's Day sent about a billion valentines. More congratulatory letters go only on Christmas holidays.
5. If you do not have a pair on February 14, do not despair. "Foreverelones" have long recognized this date as the Day of Solitude.
6. Day of loneliness is an alternative holiday for people who have not yet found their soul mate.
7. In Finland, the Day of Friends is celebrated on February 14, and its naming sounds like Ystävänpäivä.
8. This famous abbreviation is deciphered, as "whole - I embrace".
9. During the Middle Ages for Valentine's Day, the girls ate various culinary delights and imagined what would be their narrowed.
10. In the Middle Ages, it was also customary to write names on pieces of paper and put them in a bowl. Young boys and girls pulled out of different bowls by name and attached the leaves to the sleeve of their clothes. It took one week to wear a "mark", so that everyone knew who had become Valentin.
11. Officially recognized holiday was in 1537 the British King Henry VII.
12. In the 1800s, doctors advised their patients to eat chocolate to heal their wounds and easier to survive a break with their loved ones.
13. The first festive box of sweets was released by Richard Cadbury in the late 1800's.
14. Candies in boxes-hearts on Valentine's Day fly away in millions of lots.
15. Flowers on February 14 are mostly bought by men (about 73% of all visitors to flower shops).
16. 15% of American women send themselves bouquets for Valentine's Day.
17. Chocolate on this day is sold on average per billion dollars.
18. Although everyone knows about the approach of the holiday in advance, most valentines buy valentines in the last week.
19. Red roses are favorite flowers of the Roman goddess of love of Venus.
20. Scarlet is considered the color of love and passion, because the greatest demand for Valentine's Day is the scarlet roses.
21. Only in the US on February 14, they sell about 189 million of these flowers.
22. About 85% of all gifts for the 14th February are bought by women.
23. Valentines get everything: teachers, moms, children and even pets.
24. Annually, 14.02 offers to its second half make about 222 thousand young people.
25. Every year on Valentine's Day in Verona - the birthplace of Romeo and Juliet - comes no less than a thousand letters to Juliet.