We will be celebrating love all day long in The Cento Club today. We are putting the finishing touches on our decor for the evening, preparing a delicious menu Valentine’s Day menu, and Gabriela is setting the mood with her famous flower arrangements.
Whether you are spending the evening with us, or elsewhere, we hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day.
We found these interesting facts about the day of Love that we thought we’d share:
More than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold for Valentine’s Day each year.
On average, men shell out $130 each on candy, cards, jewelry, flowers and dates. That’s more than double what women commit to spending.
About 8 billion candy hearts will be produced this year; that’s enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Arizona 20 times and back again.
About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged in US each year. That’s the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.
Worldwide, over 50 million roses are given for Valentine’s Day each year
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Women purchase 85% of all valentines.
In order of popularity, Valentine’s Day cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts and pets.
73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine’s Day are men, while only 27 percent are women.
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine’s Day.
Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, an “Improvement in Telegraphy”, on Valentine’s Day, 1876.
The oldest surviving love poem till date is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians around 3500 BC.
In Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St Valentine’s Day to make them dream of their future husband.
