It's Valentine's Day again, and you're sure to hear some of the popular myths about it.

Have you heard that it was started by the greeting card companies?

Have you heard that there are more suicides on Valentine's Day or that there are more

breakups?

Well, if you have or haven't, some of these are true and some of them, well, not so much.

We're looking at 7 Valentine's Day myths, today UnSkeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

7 Valentine's Day Myths

Today it's time to find out how much you think you know about Valentine's Day.

Around every holiday, every year, the internet fills up with articles with a title similar

to today's episode, myths about Halloween.

Fact you didn't know about Christmas.

What have you?

And the quality of information in those articles is sometimes, well, questionable.

And often, the questions themselves are dumb ones.

Things that weren't really myths or that nobody was really wondering about.

So I've put on my best thinking cap and come up with what I think are 7 Solid Valentine's

Day myths.

Some might be true, some might be false, some might be a mixture.

But regardless, I hope you find it more engaging than the usual version.

We have to get started with the biggest one of all, the one that conspiracy theorists can't

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