Check my other channel Highlight History: https://www.youtube.com/channe→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Has Any Passenger Ever Landed a Commercial Airliner and How Likely is it You Could? https://youtu.be/bP_XPLFEMng Can Police Really Commandeer Your Vehicle Like in the Movies? https://youtu.be/eQC8IxoNAkg In this video: While not thought to be directly related to modern Valentine’s Day traditions, the beginnings of celebrating love (of a sort) in February date back to the Romans. The feast of Lupercalia was a pagan fertility and health festival, observed from February 13th through the 15th, that was celebrated at least as far back as 44 BCE (the year Julius Caesar was assassinated). Some historians believe it goes back even further, though with possibly a different name. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/bloody-sexy-drunk-origin-valentines-day/ Sources: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/ChurchandMinistry/churchhistory/st_valentine_the_real_story.aspx http://books.google.com/books?id=_bqdZbKPztMC&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q=Pope%20G&f=false http://www.history.com/news/6-surprising-facts-about-st-valentine https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1422&lpg=PA1422&dq=Oxford+Dictionary+of+the+Christian+Church,+1983,+p.+1423&source=bl&ots=AcQh_7QFic&sig=asg_csu3AZbYeGQOQdlfv3ufWWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=u0HNVPDxMIOdNs2hgPgJ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Valentine&f=false http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/264682?uid=2134&uid=3739808&uid=3&uid=2483512557&uid=70&uid=3739256&uid=2483512547&uid=60&uid=2&purchase-type=article&access