Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

One out of five adults worldwide would rather celebrate St. Valentine's Day with a furry (or scaly) platonic friend.

Reuters/Ipsos pitted pets against spouses in a survey of 24,000 people in 23 countries regarding how one would prefer to celebrate Feb. 14. They found that a full quarter of those under 35 go for the pet; 18 percent of those people aged 35 to 55 do, as well; and 14 percent of people over 55 pine for a V-Day free of human companionship.

As for individual countries, American respondents were somewhere in the middle with a 27 percent preference for a domesticated animal. Turks were the biggest pet lovers, checking in at 49 percent, whereas the French were at the other end of the spectrum, with only 10 percent eschewing human-to-human contact.

So here is a Valentine's Day question for us all to ponder this weekend: Why do the French hate animals so much?