Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress made out of 9,999 red roses for his girlfriend and then proposed - 9 in China means forever
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40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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