Everyone knows that kiss is a manifestation of love, but few people know that it makes our heart beat faster, the release of adrenaline, boosts blood pressure, and burns calories. We hope our set of facts will push you to kiss more.
1. There is a whole scientific study of kissing. It’s called philematology.
2. Kisses are common in 90% of the world’s cultures. But some people in Asia and Africa do not practice this way of expressing love.
3. Your brain has special neurons that help you find another person’s lips in the dark.
4. A passionate kiss triggers similar chemical processes in the brain as skydiving and can burn up to 10 calories.
5. When two people kiss, they pass on more than 10 million bacteria to each other, usually, nearly 99% of which are are not dangerous.
6. The living bacteria you exchange with your partner during kissing can help your body fight certain infections. The shared germs boost your immune system, this process called “cross-immunization”. So thus, kissing is not only pleasant but also good for health.
7. The longest kiss lasted 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds, achieved by Ekkachai Tiranarat and Laksana Tiranarat (both Thailand) at an event organized by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Pattaya, in Pattaya, Thailand, on February 12-14, 2013.
8. Animals can also kiss, such as dogs, horses, and even dolphins, but their kisses are slightly different from human ones.
9. Thomas Edison is the author of the first movie in which the kiss appeared. The 19-second-long kiss tape was published in 1886 and is called “The Kiss.”
10. Speaking of cinematography, we should not forget the film “Don Juan” in 1926, the film has the most kisses in film history, there are 191.
11. On average, a person spends more than 20 thousand minutes of his life kissing. It is about 14 days.
12. There is a psychological illness – obsessive-compulsive kissing disorder. The first case was recorded in 2012. The young man simply could not stop to kiss.
13. It might sound funny, but nowadays YouTube’s most searched video lessons are “how to kiss”.
14. The kiss has its own holiday – February 5th.
15. A long session of kisses helps to relax and lowers the level of stress hormones, they are no worse than a full meditation.
