Quotable
By Aldous Huxley, English writter (1894 - 1963)
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving."
Famous Firsts
Americans began exchanging hand - made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines in America.
By the Numbers
The human heart beats roughly 35 million times a year.
Popular Appeal
Valentine's Day is the second-most popular greeting card-giving occasion of the year.
No Kidding
Mallanaga Vatsyayana, author of "The Kama Sutra", one of history's best known books on human sexuality, was an ascetic and very likely celibate.
Still on the Books
In some smaller towns in the state of Arizona, it is illegal to wear suspenders.
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