The average person will spend an estimated 20,160 min kissing in their lifetime.
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Egyptians never kissed with their mouths. Instead they kissed with their noses.
First Kiss
50% of all people kiss have their first kiss before they are 14.
Healthy Kissing
Kissing helps reduce tooth decay because the extra saliva helps clean out your mouth.
Kissathon Record
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 couples set in January in Chile.
Kissing
The Chinese didn't kiss until the practice was introduced by Westerners, and they're still not very keen on it.
Kissing & Calories
You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
Kissing Chemicals
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.
Kissing Colors
Some theorize that when you kiss a person with the same hair color as yourself, the result is a more passionate kiss.
Kissing Many People
On September 15, 1990, Alfred Wolfram from New Brighton kissed 8001 people in just 8 hours, over sixteen people a minute, at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.
Kissing Muscles
You use only two muscles on your face when you give a peck kiss but you use all of your facial muscles and burn more calories during a passionate kiss.
Kissing Simultaneously
More than 4,400 couples poured in the streets in Chile for a 10 second kiss, setting the world record for the largest number of people kissing simultaneously.
Kissing Throughout Your Life
On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
Longest On-Screen Kiss
The longest on-screen kiss was the 3 minutes, 5 second liplock between Jane Wyman and Regis Tommey in "You're in the Army Now."
Lovapalooza 2 Kissing Record
More than 5,300 couples locked lips for at least 10 seconds in Manila, Philippines to kick off Valentine's Day 2005. This breaks Chile's old record of 4,445 couples.
Night Kissing
Our brains have special neurons that help us find eachothers lips in the dark
Science of Kissing
The science of kissing is called philematology.
Strange Kissing Laws
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.
The Kiss of Death
In Naples, Italy in the 16th century, kissing was an offence that carried the death penalty.
Turning Heads while Kissing
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.
Valentine Kissing Record
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.
World's Longest Kiss
April 5, 1999: Karmit Tsubera and Dror Orpaz kissed for a record 30 hours and 45 minutes to win a kissing contest in Rubin Square, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Lonitra BUWsrHbJVbdytxEDaTV
Posted at 6:17pm on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Reading this makes my deicsinos easier than taking candy from a baby.
Evaline FQgDsGZYgfyOtNvSb
Posted at 3:46pm on Sunday, December 4th, 2011
YMMD with that asenwr! TX
Katie Illinois
Posted at 11:25am on Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Peer presure is a crazy thing. One of my guy friends told me to kiss one of my friends that I've liked for a year he happend to like me too. I loved the kiss in fact I sprung a little tonge on him. Now I'm not sure if we should stay friends or start dating
mandela africa
Posted at 6:11pm on Friday, April 15th, 2011
well i love kissing, best thing i kissed was gandi's foot when he gave me a get out of jail free card in a group game of monopoly
fisher and eddie wakefield
Posted at 6:08pm on Friday, April 15th, 2011
well, when we first started dating i was kinda the shy frigid girl, but now we have kissed i have found a new lease of life and i love kissing my boyfreind so much :)
chris and jodie pontefract/wakefield
Posted at 5:57pm on Friday, April 15th, 2011
well me and jodie love eachother so much, we cant stop kissing. i mean come on, its all well and good kissing a girl but then when you open your eyes to see the most beautiful girl, and i mean so so gorgeous, makes you feel so lucky :)and its like nomnomnomnom
teddy bf Location unknown
Posted at 7:43am on Thursday, April 7th, 2011
i love kissing my teddy gf xD specially when we are just alone huggin each other lying down on the couch xD
Aya Missouri
Posted at 9:30pm on Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Kissing doesn't burn 26 calories one minute kiss, that would be burning more calories than jogging for 1 minute. You only burn 2 calories for every minute you spend kissing.
Lalala. Canada
Posted at 8:13pm on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
I kiss !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
Posted at 4:57am on Thursday, July 29th, 2010
bloody hell, i love kissing but when it comes to sticking your tounges in eachothers mouth it does get a bit discusting, i'm only 12 and i dont know what to do because my bf wants to pull me but i dont...
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