10 Valentine’s Day Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

2. Shakespeare's Juliet Still Gets Valentine's Day Cards

Romeo And Juliet Balcony Verona
By Uwe Hermann (Photo taken by Uwe Hermann) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Some of us find it hard to get a Valentine's Day card when we're alive, let alone several centuries after death and fictitious. It's no such problem for Juliet though, the star-crossed female focal point of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy.

Even though she was part of Shakespeare's fiction hundreds of years ago, Jules is still receiving love letters from lovestruck suitors. In fact, the balcony Shakespeare wrote Juliet as standing at is littered with these poems, messages and cards.

The city of Verona (where the play was set) receives up to 1,000 cards and notes every year. All of them are for Juliet, and we can say with supreme confidence that exactly none of them get a response. As nice a gesture as this is, it'd be like thousands of folks penning Valentine's mush for Marge Simpson and sending it off to Springfield.

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