Valentine’s Day is a day where couples can eat out at a fancy restaurant. It is also a day where people can buy their significant other a box of chocolates and a giant teddy bear. For some people, Valentines is a day where they can buy expensive chocolate and instead of giving it to someone, they can it themselves. A day that most people look forward to is the day after Valentines when they can get their chocolate on sale. Here are some facts about Valentine’s Day you might not know.

1. In Victorian times it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentines Day card.
2. About 1 billion cards are exchanged each year.
3. If you’re single, don’t worry. You can still celebrate Singles Awareness Day (SAD) instead.
4. In the middle ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their Valentine would be. They would pin the name on their sleeves for everyone to see.
5. Physicians of the 1800s advised their patients to eat chocolate to calm their pining for lost love.
6. Richard Cadbury produced the first box of chocolates for Valentines in the late 1800s.
7. On Valentines, more than 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold.
8. 73 percent of people who buy flowers on Valentines are men, while the other 27 percent are women.
9. 15 percent of women send themselves flowers on Valentines Day.
10. Over 1 billion dollars worth of chocolate is bought on this day in the U.S.
11. The red rose was the favorite flower of Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love.
12. Red roses are considered the flower of love because the color red stands for strong romantic feelings.
13. 189 million stems of roses are sold in the U.S on this day.
14. 220,000 is the average number of marriage proposals on this day.
15. The average amount a man spends on this day is 130 dollars.
16. Penicillin was produced on this day in 1929.
17. Single women have a good shot at finding a date because there are 119 single men for every 100 single women.
18. The chocolate box has actually been around for more than 140 years.

If you are single on Valentines Day do not worry the next day is Low-Priced Candy Day.