As Chocolate becomes a custom for a Valentines Day. There are some interesting facts behind Valentines Chocolate Day. Also Chocolate is most exciting day for everyone as on this day you are going to give chocolates to your crushes and going to wish them a very Happy Chocolate Day 2019 and make the relationship more stronger than before.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Men buy most of the millions of boxes of candy and bouquets of flowers given on Valentine’s Day.
Below an info-graphic describes these facts clearly
When is Valentines Chocolate Day 2020 ? Valentines Chocolate Day Facts
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