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30 Surpising Facts About Valentine's Day

This is why we gift chocolates in heart-shaped boxes.
Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you thought you knew! Mind-blowing facts you have to read to believe Did you know ...
About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...