Fun holiday facts

Valentine’s Day has been celebrated on February 14 since the 1400s, starting in Rome. The oldest known valentine was written in 1415 in France by Charles, the Duke of Orleans, in the form of a poem to his wife. As early as the 1700s, Americans are believed to have started making and giving homemade valentine cards. The first store-bought cards were likely produced in the 1840s. Around this same time, a British chocolate company, Cadbury, started selling sweets in special boxes for Valentine’s Day. Cadbury encouraged customers to keep the boxes after Valentine’s Day to store mementos, like love notes.…

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