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"Rolex" <rolex@astraweb.com> wrote in
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> Amazing-but-True Valentine's Day Facts!
>
>
> In the Tahitian language, "valen tine" is an extremely vulgar
> expression.
>
> Although a common practice now, John Wilkes Booth's brother,
> Edwin, was the first known actor to send a Valentine card to himself.
>
> To celebrate being the most romantic city on Valentine's Day,
> couples in Loveland, Colorado, trade Broncos jerseys for the day.
>
> Franklin D. Roosevelt spent every one of his 13 Valentine's Days
> as president of the United States tooling around the
> White House in his wheelchair completely naked.
>
> When broken down into its basic elemental components,
> love, in fact, actually does stink.
>
> In some remote mountain villages in the Romagna-Campanile
> region of Italy, Valentine's Day is still celebrated by the ancient
> Roman lottery in which each teenage boy draws the name of a
> teenage girl who will be his sex partner for the rest of the year.
>
> In Rome around the time of Tiberius, children were taught archery
> from a young age, and for sport, some would sneak naked into bath
> houses and shoot people with their toy arrows.
> This was the origin of "Cupid" -- Latin for "accursed child."
>
> On February 14, 1933, Al Capone's widow started an ultimately
> unsuccessful petition to have the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
> downgraded to a "public disturbance."
>
> Infamous cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer superstitiously
> avoiding eating heart on Valentine's Day.
>
> The phrase "Friends, Romans, countrymen" is an example of
> "copulative asyndenton" (coincidentally an anagram of
> "Valentine's Day Cop-out"), which is how Mark Antony's
> February 14th speech was characterized by those still loyal to Julius
> Caesar.
>
> An old Ukrainian custom dictates that women make sachets
> out of lovers' flowers after Valentine's Day. So the women
> who leave their men after Valentine's Day even after receiving
> such gifts are said to "come out smelling like a rose."
>
> Hallmark this year launched a new line called
> "the Brokeback Collection" for gay lovers.
>
> Satanists traditionally celebrate St. Valentine's Day by sacrificing
> one live kitten for each date who turned them down during that year.
>
> The St. Valentine's Day Massacre originally was scheduled for January
> 5, but nobody could spell St. Telesphorus, so they rescheduled it.
>
> The caloric intake from 50 cinnamon candy hearts provides precisely
> the calories needed to sign and seal one valentine card.
>
> "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening got his start drawing loveable
> animals on children's valentine cards.
>
> Ovaltine was originally marketed as Ovalentine, "the elixir of love."
> In 1930, when it began sponsoring "Little Orphan Annie,"
> the name was slightly altered at the request of church groups anxious
> to avoid any nasty sexual connotations.
>
> In 18th-century Italy, it was customary to cut out your lover's heart
> upon his or her death and carry it with you one day for every year you
> were together.
>
> Unsold Valentine's Day heart candies are sold as chalk to Third-World
> schools.
>
> Roses were traditionally brought to duels in the middle ages by
> onlookers as a gift to console the widow of the fight's loser.
>
> In colonial America, it was believed that saying "Happy Valentine's
> Day" backwards 10 times while copulating would ensure that your next
> offspring would be male.
>
> Candy and flowers have dropped to positions #2 and #3 as
> favorite Valentine's Day gifts. Position #1 is now occupied by video
> disks.
>
> Former Major League Baseball manager Bobby Valentine
> was born on Valentine's Day.
>
> In 1946, after seeing one of her films, the crown prince of the Congo
> once sent actress Shirley Temple a gift of 70 head of cattle.
>
> Despite common lore, Valentine's Day was not named after St.
> Valentine, but the great-great-grandfather of Rudolph Valentino, a
> poet.
>
> On a molecular level, red roses and a pint of type
> AB-negative blood are the same exact color.
>
> The practice of giving fresh-cut flowers to one's beloved
> is a modern-day replacement for the traditional gift of fresh-killed
> game animals.
>
> In early days, locksmiths charged half price on Valentine's Day
> for making duplicate keys for chastity belts.
>
> The most popular brand of candy hearts is actually made with a
> mixture of 90% sugar, 5% artificial flavoring and 5% gunpowder.
> If laid on a flat, hard surface and stomped on, they "explode" just
> like cap-gun rounds.
>
> If said in the correct tone and cadence, "Be my Valentine"
> played backwards sounds exactly like "Butt-love is in."
>
> Fearing the country was becoming too violent, President Chester Arthur
> declared Valentine's Day would replace Knife-Fight Day.
>
> The daisy, not the rose, is the biggest-selling flower on Valentine's
> Day, according to the National Flower Association.
>
> The tradition of giving chocolate hearts was started in 1255 by the
> Duke of Hershey, who murdered his wife's lover and presented her
> with his heart on a platter with an assortment of fine candies.
>
> In Wisconsin, sodomy is legal for the 24 hours of Valentine's Day.
>
> Use of the heart to symbolize affection originated with the ancient
> Egyptians.
> After removal of all internal organs in preparation for mummification,
> pharaohs' hearts were given to their widows as a last expression of
> earthly devotion.
>
> Among the findings of the 9/11 Commission was that a young
> Osama bin Laden received no valentines as a third-grader in a London
> prep school.
>
> Schlitz has been the "Official Beer of Valentine's Day" since 1982.
>
> Windows XP users who create a user name "billg" then play
> 214 games of FreeCell on February 14 will be treated to a
> slide show from Bill and Melinda Gates' wedding.
>
> Actor Vin Diesel has been selected as Mr. Valentine of 2006
> by the town of Valentine, Wyoming.
>
> Candy hearts were originally candied hamster hearts
> that were dried, cut and stamped.
>
> The average red rose contains 38 calories. White roses have only 26.
>
> "Will you be my Valentine?" has traditionally been at the low end of
> the sexual harassment scale, but in recent years has moved up quickly
> among easily-offended women.
>
> Valentine's Day cards were invented by an out-of-work
> newspaper obituary writer who hung out at the back exit
> of a brothel with a camera.
>
> On 2/14/00, 214 people bled to death from injuries attributed to rose
> thorns.
>
> There are more fatalities on Valentine's Day from cardiac arrests
> -- i.e., broken hearts -- than any other single cause.
>
> Although the human heart is not actually "heart-shaped,"
> its valves are, to allow blood to flow in only one direction.
>
> The real-life third-century St. Valentine was notorious for his forays
> into bestiality.
>
> A box of holiday chocolates, one of which contained a de-legged,
> living roach, was a popular parlor amusement of French aristocrats.
>
> A recent survey showed that marriages in which both partners vote
> Democrat tend to last 4.3 years less on average than those
> in which at least one partner votes Republican.
>
> During WWII, British spies occasionally used small bags of
> candy hearts to pass secure information, using the sayings and color
> of the hearts to add layers of encryption.
>
> The poison most likely to have been dispensed to Romeo
> by an apothecary of that time was "tincture of wormwood,"
> which has the same exact fragrance as a combination of roses and
> chocolate.
>
> February 14 (2/14) was chosen as the date to celebrate
> Valentine's Day because it symbolizes "TWO become ONE FOR-ever."
>
> The symbol of the heart for Valentine's Day and love came from an old
> Visigoth ritual of eating the hearts of one's enemies to gain
> virility.
>
>
Why as I not around in the days of Tiberius LOL.
Mercury.
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