- The scientific name for kissing, snogging, osculating and bussing is philematology.
- Just kissing can burn off 26 calories in one minute.
- The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
- Eskimos, Polynesians and Malaysians and indeed, Ancient Egyptians, rub noses instead of kissing.
- Ancient Romans kissed each other on the eyes or the mouth as a greeting.
- Victorian etiquette, in the UK, required a man to kiss the back of a ladies hand.
- A standard greeting in Europe is a kiss on both cheeks or it could be two. . .or three or maybe four.
- African tribes pay homage to their Chief by kissing the ground on which he has walked.
- In Ireland, you will have good luck if you kiss the Blarney Stone.
- Allegedly the Chinese didn’t kiss until the practice was introduced by Westerners, and they’re still not very keen on it.
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