The first valentine love letter was written in prison by Charles, Duke of Orleans, in 1415 while locked in the Tower of London. This historic love letter to his wife still exists today.
Valentine's Day was actually banned in England during the 1600s by the Puritans, who thought it was too frivolous to celebrate.
Doctors in the 1800s used to prescribe chocolate to cure heartbreak, which helped start the tradition of giving chocolate on Valentine's Day.
The earliest Valentine's Day wasn't about romance at all - it began as a Roman fertility festival called Lupercalia where men and women were randomly paired together.
The Bronx Zoo once accepted cockroaches as admission payment during the Great Depression, and people would name them after their loved ones as Valentine's gifts.
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