*A real kiss quickens your pulse to 100 beats in a minute
*The romantic Canadian porcupines kiss one another on the lips
*Experts insist that the average person falls in love seven times before marriage
*The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day
*The expression "wearing your heart on your sleeve" comes from a Valentine's Day party tradition. Young women would write their names on slips of paper to be drawn by young men. A man would then wear a woman's name on his sleeve to claim her as his valentine
*The longest engagement was Sixty-seven years, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The happy couple finally wed at age 82!
