When it comes to Valentine's Day fun facts, you could turn to your friendly neighborhood florist, love doctor or pimp.
But we like to think outside the heart-shaped box.
So here, courtesy of Los Angeles-based 5W Public Relations, we present the following . . .
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- LifeStyles Condoms estimates that 87 condoms are used each second in the U.S. on Valentine's Day, which also shares the date with the lesser-known National Condom Day.
- Organic Bouquet estimates
that more than 200 million roses were produced for Valentine's Day 2011.
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- The U.S. Census Bureau reports
that only 11 percent of households celebrate by gifting each other jewelry
on Valentine's.
- According to the Hallmark Corp., nearly 200 million cards are exchanged each year on Feb.
14, and that doesn't include V-Day card packs exchanged by millions
of schoolchildren.
- The National Retail Federation
reports that men spend nearly twice the amount women spend on the holiday.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.
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