By means of kisses we can express our desires, emotions, feelings. Just by touching the lips of a partner, we can, without using words to admit to him in love. Kisses are a whole science that constantly attracts people, delivering extraordinary pleasure. Let's find out about some interesting facts about kisses.
- Despite the fact that the fingertips are one of the most sensitive places of the human body, the lips surpass them more than a hundred times. One real kiss can increase the pulse to hundreds or more beats per minute;
- A welcome kiss "on the cheek" helps burn 5 calories, and a sucking kiss can increase this number to 30 calories at a time. If these figures do not tell you anything, then for comparison, this fact - to burn 5 calories with fast walking it will take about a minute!
- During the kiss from one kisser to another, about three hundred different cultures of bacteria are transmitted, while 95 percent of them are not dangerous. Do not forget about the remaining 5%!
- Every tenth representative of the stronger sex kissed "truly" even before reaching the age of 10 years. If a teenager is 14 years old, then with a probability of 50% he already kissed "sucking";
- Three factors that can discourage a woman from wanting to kiss in order of decreasing importance: 1) bad breath, 2) a strong smell of sweat, 3) a too short male chin;
- According to statistics, the average woman before marriage, kisses with 6-8 men;
- If you turn to the animal world, then most like a human kiss is the one that is observed in chimpanzees. You can also see that horses, dogs and Canadian porcupines are kissing on the lips;
- In Italy in the Middle Ages, if a man kissed a girl in public, he had to marry her without fail. And in the Italian city of Naples, the laws were even stricter - for a single kiss one could get to prison, and if this saw a high clerical person, then it would lose his life altogether;
- For a lifetime a person on average kisses only two weeks;
- There is a scientific separate discipline that studies kisses - phylumatology. And the kiss itself is scientifically called osculation;
- In the history of cinematography, most kisses were in the 1927 film Don Juan - as many as 127. And all of this were kisses between John Barrymore and two actresses, Estelle Taylor and Mary Astor;
- Interesting are some American laws about kissing. In Indiana, a man who wears a mustache is forbidden to kiss "any human being". In Connecticut, a man on Sunday does not have the right to kiss his wife. And in the town of Cedar Rapida, which is located in Iowa, you can be taken to the station if you kiss a stranger;
- As the magazine Scientific American has calculated, the greatest number of kisses can be seen on Valentine's Day, with more than half of those kissing while tilting their heads to the right. According to studies, the habit of bowing to one side or the other is laid in the period of intrauterine development;
- The existing tradition to bind an oath of marital fidelity originated from Russia;
- As the actress Juliana Moore assures, kissing women is much more pleasant than men, because "women are so soft and always smell good";
- One passionate kiss can lead to the same chemical reactions in the brain as shooting weapons or skydiving;
- A kiss of sufficient duration is much better than chewing gum, it can normalize the level of acidity in the mouth. If you kiss each time after eating, it not only gives you pleasure, but also significantly reduces the level of risk of caries development;
- Dror Orpaz and Carmit Suber in 1999 became world record holders for the duration of the kiss - on Tel-Aviv Square under the enthusiastic cries of the crowd they kissed for 30 hours and 45 minutes. A year later, their record was beaten by Rich Langley and Louise Almodovar, who surpassed them by 14 minutes 27 seconds. The guys obviously wanted to bring the record to 31 hours, but they did not have enough strength;
- There is such an international holiday as a day of kiss, approved in this capacity by the UN. It is celebrated on July 6;
- Statistics say that a man kissing his wife before leaving for work, has a greater income than someone who does not.