Since there was tons of kissing going on at midnight recently, here’s some interesting facts about smooching!
* According to the book of Genesis, the first kiss was delivered by God to breathe the spirit of life into Adam .
* Studies have shown that 97% of women shut eyes, men only 37%. Some say it could be to keep from getting caught…
* The Romans started kissing on the lips as a way for a husband to see if his wife had been drinking during the day. The practice got so popular Emperor Tiberius had to ban it after an epidemic outbreak of lip sores!
* The French kiss was invented in the Brittany village of Pays de Mont as a sex substitute as their population was growing too fast!
* XXXX’s are used in love letters to represent kisses. This started back in the days by people who couldn’t write, and signed their names with the “x”. To emphasize sincerity, the mark was repeated.
* Humans are not the only animals to kiss. Polar bears and kangaroos kiss, and chipanzees can french kiss. Sea lions rub mouths, male mice lick female mice mouths, and elephants sometimes brush trunks against another’s lips!
* The Anti-Kissing League was formed in 1909 in the USA by folks who considered kissing unhealthy,
* How and where you kiss used to be a sign of social pecking order. Equals kissed each other on the cheek. The lower you ranked to another the lower you had to kiss them, thus a slave kissed his master’s feet, and prisoners would have to kiss the ground near the feet.
* The most kissed statue in the world is a marble statue of Guidarello Guidarelli, a 16th century Italian soldier. At the end of the 19th century it was rumored that a woman who kissed the statue would marry a fabulous man.
* Kiss to get a free car? A 23 year old waitress from Sante Fe did. In 1994 she kissed a car for 32 hours and 20 minutes and loosened 4 teeth in the process!
* Mono is referred to as the kissing disease.
* A person vomiting is said to be “kissing the porcelain god”.
* Internet surfers like to KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid
* The film with the most kisses is the 1926 Don Juan, in which John Barrymore performed 191 kisses with different women.
* Kissing around the world: Eskimoe rub noses, as do a good many other peoples. Polynesians like a nose rub but also enjoy the mitakuku, which involves biting hairs from eyebrows. Trobriand islanders bite each other’s eyelashes, in the Pacific Islands they inhale each others breath. In Gambia a man hold’s the back of his partner’s hand against his nose. If you are in Scotland and offered a Glasgow kiss, or in Liverpool and offered a Kirby kiss, you’d better refuse unless you want a head butt.
* Kissing is good for your teeth according to dentists as it encourages saliva which acts as mouthwash that helps prevent tooth decay.
* A really tongue-twisting kissing session exercises 39 facial muscles and burn up to 150 calories, that’s more than a 15-minute swim! FYI – an ordinary peck uses up just 3 calories.
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