kissing facts that may shock you

Mechanically speaking, kissing is almost identical to suckling. Some scholars speculate that the way a person kisses may reflect whether he or she was breastfed or bottle fed.

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.

Common chimpanzees kiss with open mouths, but not with their tongues. Bonobos, the most intelligent non human primates, do kiss with their tongues.

The first on screen kiss was shot in 1896 by the Edison Company. Titled The May Irwin John C. Rice Kiss, the film was 30 seconds long and consisted entirely of a man and a woman kissing close up.The first on screen kiss between two members of the same sex was in Cecil B. DeMille 1922 Manslaughter.

The mouth is full of bacteria. When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.