V-Day Trivia

– About 36 million boxes of chocolate will be given this day.

– 85% of all Valentine’s Day cards will be bought by women

– About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are purchased…right behind Christmas at 2.6 billion

– In order of popularity, Valentine’s Day cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts and pets.

– The most notorious Valentine’s Day was in 1929 when seven people were gunned down in Chicago. Al Capone’s gang planned to kill Bugs Moran. Bugs Moran was on his way to the garage where the killing took place, but turned away when he saw someone dressed as a policeman (the disguise of the killers) and escaped. One of the seven killed was an innocent man who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

– Every Valentine’s Day, the Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet….she has yet to respond.