Fun Facts of The Day: Kissing

Here are some interesting facts about kissing that you may not have known:

• You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
• The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing. 
• The scientific name for kissing is philematology.
• Beware where you kiss!
  In some places kissing is a crime - it's illegal in Indiana for a mustached man to "habitually kiss human beings", in Hartford, Connecticut it's illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sunday, and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's a crime to kiss a stranger. 
• Victorian etiquette required a man to kiss the back of a ladies hand. 
• French kissing involves all 34 muscles in the face. A pucker kiss involves only two
• Kissing is good for teeth. The anticipation of a kiss increases the flow of saliva to the mouth, giving the teeth a plaque-dispersing bath
• Kissing at the conclusion of a wedding ceremony can be traced to ancient Roman tradition where a kiss was used to sign contract
• Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss. Some scholars speculate this preference starts in the womb

You can find more kissing facts here: 

• http://hicards.com/valentine/vkiss.html

Or here:

• http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/01/22_kissing.html