Facts About Kissing - strangefacts

• You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss

• Longest underwater kiss - 2 minutes and 18 seconds in Tokyo, Japan, on April 2, 1980

• Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips

• The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes

• The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel

• It takes 20 different muscles to form a kiss

• James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang

• The first far eastern country to permit kissing in films was China. The first oriental screen kiss was bestowed on Miss Mamie Lee in the movie "Two Women in the House"

• People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)

• The record for most kisses in a movie is 127 in Don Juan
  

Facts About Valentine's Day - strangefacts

• Japanese celebrate Christmas, but it is more like Valentine's day in the western world

• In the United States, the average couple spends 120$ on Valentine’s Day gifts

• In the US, nine million people buy Valentine’s Day gifts for their pets

• Some years ago, George Clooney spent $30,000 on a hotel room for Valentine’s Day

• Nearly 1 billion greeting cards are sent on Valentine’s Day, a number that is only exceeded at Christmas

• Only about 26% of the population celebrate Valentine's Day

• Most people spend at least $100 per person on their romantic Valentine’s dinner

• Most people who are choosing to share a romantic dinner with someone on Valentine's Day are choosing the same kind of cuisine. In fact, the most popular choice on this holiday is French cuisine

• Youtube domain was registered on Valentines Day

• Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare's play lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters every year sent to Juliet on Valentine's Day

• More people drink wine with their Valentine’s Day dinner than drink champagne

• 85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women

• The first commercial Valentine cards, trimmed with imported lace, were made by Esther Howland in Worcester, Massachusetts

• Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent across. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion

• Amongst the earliest Valentine's Day gifts were candies. The most common were chocolates in heart shaped boxes

• On February 14th wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on Valentine's Day in Wales. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite Valentine decorations on the wooden spoons. This Valentine decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!"