Sixteen interesting facts you did not know about kissing

11. Kissing in public is usually frowned upon in Japan, Taiwan, China and Korea. A typical Japanese kiss seems to be designed to reproach the loose morals of the West. At best, it looks like an innocuous kind of billing and cooing Soviet teenagers would practice on their first date in the early 1970s. Two Japanese are supposed to maintain a certain distance before they dare bow their heads and kiss each other on the lips for a second.

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12. The bodies of those engaged in kissing produce a substance that is 200 times more powerful than morphine in terms of narcotic effect. That is why the kissing partners can experience feelings of euphoria and bliss in the process.

13. Kissing can help women relax and ease the effects of stress.

14. On the average, a person spends 20,160 minutes (two weeks) of his life on kissing.

15. A kiss that lasts one minute can relieve your body of 26 calories.

16. Every other person on the planet has his first amorous kiss before reaching the age of 14.

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