Valentine’s Day fun facts
Love birds all over Zululand will celebrate Valentine's Day today
HERE are a few fun facts about this most romantic day of the year:
• Hallmark produced the first Valentine card in 1913. Now, Hallmark offers over 1 330 different Valentine cards;
• In the middle ages, young men and women would draw names from a bowl on Valentine’s Day. They would wear the name they drew on their sleeve for one week. This is where the saying ‘to wear your heart on your sleeve’ comes from.
• The oldest surviving Valentine’s Day poem was written on a clay tablet by the Sumerians around 3500 BC. It was the Sumerians who invented writing.
• Richard Cadbury invented the very first Valentine’s Day candy box in the late 1800s.
• Venus, the Roman goddess of love, loved the red rose. It was her favourite flower.
• In the 1800s, physicians would often prescribe chocolate to patients who were pining for loved ones.
