10 Valentines Day Facts You Didn’t Know
Happy Valentines Day from everyone here at The Boehm Team! Celebrate with us by reading some facts about Valentines Day you probably didn’t know.
Did You Know….
- In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who would be their Valentine. They would wear this name pinned onto their sleeves for one week for everyone to see. This was the origin of the expression “to wear your heart on your sleeve.”
- Richard Cadbury produced the first box of chocolates for this holiday in the late 1800s.
- Teachers receive the most Valentine’s cards, followed by children, mothers, and wives. Children between the ages of 6-10 exchange more than 650 million Valentine cards a year.
- More than 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold for Valentine’s Day.
- Apart from his association with lovers, St Valentine is patron saint of beekeepers, epilepsy and plague.
- Thailand issued the world’s first rose-scented stamps in February 2002 for Valentine’s Day.
- In 2011, Iran banned Valentine cards, gifts, teddy bears, and other Valentine tokens as part of an Islamic republic backlash against the spread of Western culture.
- On Valentine’s Day, nearly 189 million stems of roses are sold in the U.S
- The first recorded Valentine was sent February 1415 by the English Duke of Orleans. He sent of love letter to his wife from his jail cell in the Tower of London after the Battle of Agincourt. It is currently on display in the British Museum
- In Victorian times it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentine’s Day card.
