Kissing someone for one minute burns about 2 calories.
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When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
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Kissing someone is more sanitary
than shaking hands, if you want to avoid a cold.
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Kissing can cause tooth decay.
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Instead of kissing, mothers of the Manchu tribe used to show affection by sucking their child's penis in public, because kissing was considered sexual.
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The longest kiss ever recorded lasted 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds.
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Philematology
is the science of kissing.
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The scientific term
for French kissing
is cataglottism.
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The first time two men kissed on-screen was in 1927.
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The average person
spends two weeks of
his life Kissing.
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Two-thirds of people tilt their head to the right when they kiss.
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In Nevada, it is illegal to kiss with a mustache.
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The average age
in the UK
for a first kiss
is 15.
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Fewer than half the world's cultures engage in romantic kissing, a study found.
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Kissing a baby on the ear can make it go deaf because of a condition known as "cochlear ear-kiss injury."
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The most searched tutorial on YouTube is "How to Kiss."
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Kissing
involves a total of
34 facial muscles
and 112 postural muscles.
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Inhabitants of the Trobriand Islands ‘kiss' in a three-step procedure, beginning with biting each other's lower lips, then pulling their partner's hair, before nibbling off each other's eyelashes.
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Indonesia banned kissing in public in 2004.
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The Eskimo kiss –rubbing noses– is not a kiss. It's called a "kunik" and is an expression of affection, usually from an adult to its child. The Inuit kiss on the lips like everyone else.
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Roman Emperor Tiberius banned kissing, believing it caused the spread of a fungal disease called mentagra (inflamed hair follicles).
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