Around 1 billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged each year, making it the second largest seasonal card-sending occasion after Christmas. In ancient Rome, Emperor Claudius II had a priest named Valentine executed for secretly performing marriages, and in the Middle Ages, young men and women would draw names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be for the week. Various old traditions and superstitions surrounding Valentine's Day include beliefs about what type of bird a woman saw predicting her future husband, eating a hard-boiled egg on Valentine's Eve would reveal one's future spouse in a dream, and the city of Verona receives about 1,000 letters annually addressed to Shakespeare's Juliet.

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2. About 1 billion Valentine's
Day cards are exchanged
each year. That's the largest
seasonal card-sending
occasion of the year, next to
Christmas.
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3. February 14, 270 A.D. : Roman
Emperor Claudius II, dubbed
"Claudius the Cruel," beheaded a
priest named Valentine for
performing marriage ceremonies.
Claudius II had outlawed marriages
when Roman men began refusing
to go to war in order to stay with
their wives.
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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.

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Some people used to believe
that if a woman saw a robin
flying overhead on Valentine's
Day, it meant she would marry
a sailor. If she saw a sparrow,
she would marry a poor man
and be very happy. If she saw a
goldfinch, she would marry a
millionaire.

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In the 17th century a hopeful maiden ate a hard-boiled egg
and pinned five bay leaves to her pillow before going to sleep
on Valentine's eve. It was believed this would make her dream
of her future husband.

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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.

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The red rose was the favorite
flower of Venus, the Roman
goddess of love. Red stands for
strong feelings which is why a
red rose is a flower of love.

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Wearing a wedding ring on the
fourth finger of the left hand
dates back to ancient Egypt,
where it was believed that the
vein of love ran from this finger
directly to the heart.

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