Candy, cards, jewelry… all the material goods (and cash you’ll be dropping)  for this very special – commercial holiday!  Hell, maybe you’re stuck alone… again this year… cringing at all the lovebirds you’ll see out and about.  Either way, you have it good compared to what seven residents of the Windy City had to endure in 1929.  In response to all the lovey-dovey overkill levied upon you all on this February 14th, COED gives you a special Valentine – a horrific heart-day list.  So, go amaze your equally lonely friends, or simply stun your special someone with a real conversation killer thanks to these 5 things you didn’t know about the infamous and most publicized gangster hit in American history  - the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre! Read the full list after the jump!

Al Capone made a living off of one of the worst laws in American history. At one point he was earnings over 100 million dollars a year, simply by giving the people what they wanted, booze. But liquor discrimination still continues today despite the efforts of Capone and his crew. Today’s bootleggers, college freshmen, have adapted the methods of Capone to smuggle liquor into dorm rooms, and themselves into bars, proving that people today have just as little respect for liquor laws than they have ever had.

Twentieth-Century Fox was the butt of a big prank this April Fool’s Day, when news broke that a copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was leaked onto the net. Movies get leaked habitually, sure, but the circumstances combined to make it feel like a first: It was a DVD-quality copy. Of a massive, big-budget superhero movie. Online a full month before the movie’s release.