• The average person will spend an estimated 20,160 min kissing in their lifetime.
• Ancient Egyptians never kissed with their mouths. Instead they kissed with their noses.
• Kissing helps reduce tooth decay because the extra saliva helps clean out your mouth.
• On Valentine’s Day 2004, 5,122 Philippine coupes gathered together at midnight and locked lips. This kissathon beat the previous world record of 4,445 set in January in Chile.
• The Chinese didn’t kiss until the practice was introduced by Westerners, and they’re still not very keen on it.
• You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
• Kissing releases the same neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain) as those that are released when you engage in intense exercise such as running a marathon or skydiving. This causes your heart to beat faster and your breathing to become deep and irregular.
• Our brains have special neurons that help us find each others lips in the dark
• The science of kissing is called philematology.
• There are many strange laws regarding kissing that are still on the books. In Indiana, it is illegal for a man with a moustache to “habitually kiss human beings”. And in Hartford, CT, it is illegal for a man to kiss his wife on a Sunday.
• In Naples, Italy in the 16th century, kissing was an offence that carried the death penalty.
• Onur Guentuerkuen of Ruhr-University Bochum in Bochum, Germany, studied hundreds of couples kissing. In his study, he found that two-thirds of people turn their heads to the right when kissing.
• On Valentine’s Day 2004, an Italian couple made their way into the record books with a 31-hour 18-minute Valentine kiss. The couple beat the previous record by 18 minutes and 33 seconds, however, the man had to receive oxygen afterwards.
• There are many strange laws regarding kissing that are still on the books. In Indiana, it is illegal for a man with a moustache to “habitually kiss human beings”. And in Hartford, CT, it is illegal for a man to kiss his wife on a Sunday.
• It is prohibited by USA Iowa state law to kiss somebody more than 5 minutes
