7 Facts About Valentines Day You Probably
Didn’t Know
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Valentines Day comes in less than 11 days and
Nigerian girls are
patiently waiting for what their boo will get them,
while gradually
shopping for the latest boxer and singlet they will
give in return.
Valentines Day is celebrated almost everywhere
in the world,
which means it is widely accepted. However,
there are things
about the day most people who have marked it
for decades
probably never knew. Just so you do not
celebrate in
ignorance, We brings you 7 facts about
Valentines
Day you should know…
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See the 7 Facts below:-
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– The most popular theory about Valentine’s Day
origin is that
Emperor Claudius II didn’t want Roman men to
marry during
wartime. Bishop Valentine went against his
wishes and
performed secret weddings. For this, Valentine
was jailed and
executed. While in jail he wrote a note to the
jailer’s
daughter signing it “from your Valentine”.
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– 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.”
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– In 1537, England’s King Henry VII officially
declared Feb.
14 the holiday of St. Valentine’s Day.
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– Richard Cadbury produced the first box of
chocolates for
Valentine’s Day in the late 1800s.
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– The red rose was the favorite flower of Venus,
the Roman
goddess of love.
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– On average, men spend double the amount of
money on
Valentine`s Day gifts than women spend.
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– Alexander Graham Bell, one of the primary
inventors of the
telephone, is credited with patenting the first
practical
telephone on Valentine’s Day in 1876.
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– 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.
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If you didn’t know, well now you do!!!
