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Did you know... Valentine Day fun facts

Every occasion that is celebrated over the world has some fun facts associated with it. Given here are some fun facts about Valentine's Day.

1st Feb
Handmade paper Valentines were popular in England in the 1400's and were made with coloured papers, water colours and coloured inks.

2nd Feb
The oldest surviving love poem till date is written on a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians, inventors of writing.

3rd Feb
Teachers get maximum number of V-Day cards, followed by children, mothers, wives and then, sweethearts.

4th Feb
Valentine's Day evolved from the Roman festival of Lupercalia, where young men held a lottery to decide which girl would be theirs.

5th Feb
During Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St. Valentine's Day to have a dream of their future husband.

6th Feb
Did you know that Tom Cruise once proposed to his wife Katie Holmes from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

7th Feb
California produces 60 pc of American roses, but roses sold on Valentine's Day in US are imported, mostly from South America.

8th Feb
It is said that when the Propose day falls in a leap year, it is auspicious for a woman to propose a man.

9th Feb
Did you know that Mozart loved chocolates so much that he wrote about it in one of his operas.

10th Feb
Did you know that the Teddy bear got its name from Teddy Roosevelt, more commonly known as Theodore Roosevelt.

11th Feb
The merchants in Australia generally made gift orders of a thousand pounds at a time to make the Valentines Day grander.

12th Feb
The practice of a man kissing his wife started with Romans who tasted their ladies lips to find out if they had been drinking wine.

13th Feb
Elton John and Renate Blauel, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein, all got married on Feb 14.

14th Feb
V-Day evolved from the Roman festival of Lupercalia, where young men held a lottery to decide which girl would be theirs.

15th Feb
Verona, where Shakespearean lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every V-Day.