Unusual facts about kisses

What was the longest kiss ever? How many calories you can burn while kissing?

We don’t need to wait the 6 of July – the world’s International kissing day, to talk about kisses. It is the best way to show your partner how deep is your love. Some think that the International Kissing Day is better than St Valentine’s.  Anyway, we have got for you the most interesting fact about kisses. 

In general, every individual spends 336 hours or 2 weeks on kissing

The lips are 200 times more sensitive than the tips of fingers.

Kissing is a good face workout that can help your skin look younger

It’s not surprising during a kiss you make from 30 to 57 muscles of your face work. Usually, these muscles are active only during chewing or talking. Activating your face muscles can actually help you to burn some extra calories, not speaking about amazing ability to lift your facial contours and smooth your wrinkles. With a simple cheek kiss you can burn 5 calories and during passionate minute long French kiss you will burn 26.

Kisses reduce stress

Scientifically proved that kissing slows down the formation of glucocorticoid hormones.  These hormones cause the sense of alarm, raise the blood pressure and may lead to insomnia. In order to feel better, you should have at least three 20 seconds kisses during the day.While kissing your body produce the substance that is 200 times more effective painkiller than morphine. This substance is responsible for the feeling of happiness that appears during a kiss.

According to statistics, 66% of people close their eyes during a kiss

Herewith 65% of respondents tilt their head to the right. Again scientist proved that the habit to tilt the heard to a certain side is forming during the prenatal development.

The first movie with a kissing scene

It was a short film of Tomas Edison “The Kiss” 1896. In just 19 seconds it shows the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice.

The biggest number of kisses was in “Don Juan” 1926. The main character performed by John Barrymore, kissing (all together) Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor 127 times.

The longest kiss in the history of cinema:

was in “You’re in the Army Now” (1941). 185 seconds kissing scene between Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman, the first wife of 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan.

The longest real kiss record holds the couple from Thailand.

The housewife and bodyguard were kissing for 58 hours 35 minutes and 58 seconds in 2015. They participated in kissing marathon and had to eat through the straw. They won $3000 and two diamond rings.

There are some countries where public kissing is considered indecent or even not acceptable.

Public kisses are under the ban of society in China, Japan and Korea.  That’s why a Japanese kiss is when partners stand one step away from each other, bend and just for a second slightly touch each other’s’ lips.