 | Valentine's Fun Facts UCD Staff - Friday, February 09, 2001
- 1,000,000,000 valentine cards are delivered annually
-Valentine's Day is the second-largest card-sending holiday of the year. (2.6 billion cards are sent out at Christmas.)
- 85% of valentine cards are purchased by women.
- Shakespeare mentions Valentine's Day in two of his works.He refers to Valentine's Day in Hamlet (Act 4, Scene 5). "To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime." He also mentioned the day in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 4 Scene 1).
- 3% of pet owners will give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets.(compared to 48% at Christmas or Hanukkah).
- 8,000,000,000 Candy Conversation Hearts are sold between January 1 and February 14th each year.
-Conversation Hearts were created in 1866, originally called Motto Hearts.
-The shelf life of a Conversation heart is 3-5 years. | |