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Valentine's Day is kind of a weird holiday. For work last month, I was checking out some facts on Valentine's Day for the February program guide for KBYI and I found some weird facts.

* 192 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion. (This total excludes packaged kids valentines for classroom exchanges.)
* Nearly 60 percent of all Valentine’s Day cards are purchased in the six days prior to the observance, making Valentine’s Day a procrastinator’s delight.
* There were two saints named Valentine and a priest named Valentine. One saint was executed on February 14th and 227 years later, Pope Gelasius named that day Valentine's Day for him. The priest named Valentine disobeyed the emporer and secretly married couples.
* Birds and fowl select their mates on February 14th.