International Kissing Day 2019: A List of 10 Lip-Smacking Facts About Kissing

International Kissing Day is celebrated by loads of people around the world. The day was invented to make lovers celebrate by showing affection and love. Believe it or not, events are organised for the international kissing day for lovers and those who are looking for lovers.

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The International Kissing Day was established in the year 2006, to celebrate, you guessed it, kissing! The day is celebrated by loads of people around the world. The day was invented to make lovers celebrate by showing affection and love. Believe it or not, events are organised for the International Kissing Day for lovers and those who are looking for lovers. I guess the show love at first kiss was inspired by such events. Netflix’s Stranger Things 3 Review: The Other-Worldly Adventures of Eleven and Co Just Got Bigger, Funnier and Ickier!

Did you know, five percent of the population over 45 kiss at least 31 times a day? We neither, but they do. Here are some more interesting facts about kissing. FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 USA Teammates and Lesbian Couple Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris to Get Married in December! (Check Instagram Post).

  1. A single kiss requires 112 postural muscles and 34 facial muscles.
  2. Kissing can burn upto 26 calories a minute.
  3. An average human spends up to two weeks of their lives kissing. That’s around 336 hours of kissing.
  4. The longest recorded kiss lasted 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds. A Thai couple made that record in 2011.
  5. Your lips are like your fingerprints. No lips impressions are the same.
  6. Kissing decreases stress.
  7. When you kiss someone new, you exchange about 80 million microbes. You and your long-term partner are used to them.
  8. A simple kiss is capable of giving you an STD.
  9. You develop your kissing style in the womb!
  10. People remember their first kiss more vividly than their first time having sex.

Let’s get the celebration started. Go on a date, go and meet your partner and get the party started. Celebrate this day with your lover and if you don’t have a lover, give your best friend a kiss on their cheek and annoy them. Because why not?

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jul 06, 2019 08:30 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

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