Kissing Facts & Kiss Benefits

Kissing Facts & Kiss Benefits

 

It is a matter of record that Canadian porcupines kiss one another on the lips.

 

The world's longest kiss took place on January 28, 2002. Louisa Almodovar and Rich Langly of New Jersey kissed for a record 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds on a segment of "Ricki Lake".

 

Matrimonial pollsters' studies prove that a man who kisses his wife good-bye when he leaves for work every morning averages a higher income than does the fellow who doesn't do that thing.

In medieval Italy kisses weren't taken, or given, lightly. If a man and a woman were seen embracing in public they could be forced to marry!

Our brains have special neurons that help us locate each others lips in the dark. 

(It's really true too! I've tried it!)

It is estimated that the average person will spend about 20,160 minutes kissing in their lifetime.

You burn 26 calories in a 1 minute kiss.

The first kiss ever shown in a movie was in 1896. The movie, was called The Kiss.

Hershey's Kisses got their name because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

50% of all people kiss before they turn 14.

Kissing helps reduce tooth decay. Kissing increases the mouth's production of saliva, and saliva helps clean the mouth thus aides prevention of tooth decay.