24 Fascinating Kissing Facts That May Shock You!
Peter Pizagalli
Published
10/02/2014
Stuff you should know!
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53percent of Women prefer to kiss a clean shaven man. -
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According to anthropologists, 90 percent of people kiss. But that doesn't mean that kissing is the same for everyone. Kissing customs vary across the world -
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Common chimpanzees kiss with open mouths, but not with their tongues. Bonobos, the most intelligent non-human primates, do kiss with their tongues -
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Kissing can increase your life expectancy A study has shown that men live up to five years longer if they kiss their wife before going to work -
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According to biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, we tend to prefer people with particular biological profiles. Trading saliva is one way to figure out if someone is a good fit. -
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Kissing is good for teeth. The anticipation of a kiss increases the flow of saliva to the mouth, giving the teeth a plaque-dispersing bath -
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Kissing is still illegal in some parts of the United States For example, in Hartford, Connecticut, its illegal for women to kiss their husbands on Sunday -
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Kissing triggers the release of oxytocin in your body -
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Mechanically speaking, kissing is almost identical to suckling. Some scholars speculate that the way a person kisses may reflect whether he or she was breastfed or bottle fed -
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More kissing in a relationship is related to how satisfied people say they are in that relationship -
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Most people remember their first kiss more vividly than the first time they had sex -
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On average, two-thirds of people tip their heads to the right when they kiss -
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Our brains have neurons which help us locate each other's lips in the dark -
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Over time, kissing lowers your levels of stress hormone cortisol, which helps create a sense of security. -
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The average person spends about 336 hours out of their life kissing -
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The first on-screen kiss was shot in 1896 by the Edison Company. Titled The May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, the film was 30 seconds long and consisted entirely of a man and a woman kissing close up -
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The mouth is full of bacteria. When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria -
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The science of kissing itself is called philematology -
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The world record for the longest kiss goes to Ekkachai Tiranarat and Laksana Tiranarat with a kiss that lasted 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds -
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When you kiss someone for the first time, you get a spike in the neurotransmitter dopamine, making you crave more. -
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When you kiss someone your heart beats faster and more oxygen reaches your brain -
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When your lips touch someone elses 5 out of 12 of your cranial nerves are engaged -
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Women tend to rate kissing as more important in relationships than men do -
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Your lips have a disproportionate number of nerve endings compared to other parts of your body
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