About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged in the US each year. That’s the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.

73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine’s Day are men, while only 27% are women.

Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentines Day candy box in the late 1800s.

Worldwide over 50 million roses are given for Valentine’s Day each year.

Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone on Valentines Day, 1876.

In order of popularity, Valentines Day cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts, and pets.

Legend says that if you find a glove on the road on Valentine’s Day, your future beloved will have the other missing glove.