If you are reading this on the day after Valentine’s Day, you might be able to get some inexpensive chocolate. Just a suggestion!
Did you know….
Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day.
Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the telephone on Valentine’s Day in 1876.
A glass of champagne contains 84 calories.
States with the most chocolate production are Pennsylvania (Hershey) and California (Ghirardelli).
It takes 400 chocolate beans to make a pound of chocolate.
Each box of Sweethearts contains 36 candies.
250 million roses are produced for Valentine’s Day each year.
Valentine, Texas, has a population of 108.
It was a Medieval belief that the mating season for birds begins on February 14.
The melting point of chocolate is 86-90 degrees.
Women have a faster heartbeat than men.
June is National Candy Month.
Red roses sell best on Valentine’s Day, followed by pink and then white (odd because yellow roses symbolize love, don’t they?)
Galentine’s Day is February 13.
The least desired Valentine’s Day gift is a teddy bear.
Theobromine is the ingredient in cocoa that makes chocolate toxic to dogs.
The first commercial Valentine’s Day cards were printed in the mid 1800s.
The M’s in M&M’s stand for Mars and Murrie.
Germany consumes the most candy per capita.
Hershey hugs are Kisses that are covered in white chocolate.
66 of Elvis’s songs have the word love in the title.
Hi, Arlene!
I read and appreciate all your writings and I am quite often surprised by the amount of new information I can get.
I hope that this time I can add something to your knowledge: yellow roses would never suit Valentine’s Day because yellow is the colour of jealousy… at least in Italy!
Love from Udine – Friuli Venezia Giulia – Italy
Lix
I thought I had once heard that yellow roses represent love, and I was incorrect. Should have double checked. However, here they apparently don’t mean jealousy. They mean joy or friendship.Jealousy is green over here as far as know. But there are no green roses. Thank you for correcting me and for the compliment!