You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.

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.

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

The scientific name for kissing is philematology.

First movie kiss - John C Rice kissed May Irwin in the film called "The Kiss" (1896)

Longest movie kiss - 3 minutes and 5 seconds between Jane Wyman and Regis Tommey in, "You're in the Army Now" (1941)

In some places kissing is a crime - it's illegal in Indiana for a moustached man to "habitually kiss human beings", in Hartford, Connecticut it's illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sunday, and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's a crime to kiss a stranger.

Young people start kissing two or three years before they launch their sex lives. Fifty percent experience the excitement of the first kiss at 13 or 14 years of age.

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.

Scientific studies have proven that kissing can help reduce skin rashes and blemishes.

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

Husbands who kiss their wives before leaving home in the morning have been documented to live five years than those who do not.

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