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True or False

The Goddess Venus's favorite flower is the red rose?

Fun Fact

In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names to see who their Valentine would be. According to Smithsonian, they would wear the name pinned to their sleeve for one week so that everyone would know their supposed true feelings.

This Day in History

60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta

1720 Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory

1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain

1824 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru

1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo

1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design

1952 India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power

True or False

Candy hearts were originally medical lozenges

Fun Fact

Roman Emperor Claudius II was trying to bolster his army, he forbade young men to marry, because apparently single men make better soldiers. In the spirit of love, St. Valentine defied the ban and performed secret marriages, History.com reports. For his disobedience, Valentine was executed on February 14th.

This Day in History

1451 Sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire

1509 The Battle of Diu, naval battle at port of Diu, India between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire, establishes Portugese trading control

1870 US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races & colour

1928 Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings on the ancient human fossils found at Zhoukoudian, China in the journal Nature and declares them to be a new species he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')

1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

Super Bowl Trivia

Which player has won the Super Bowl MVP 3 times?