Kissing is an expression of affection. For valentines day, kissing plays an important part. It is showing of your affection towards your valentine.Did you know that the idea of puckering up those lips with your valentine has a lot more to it. So here's a collection of kissing trivias and unusual kissing facts from around the web! You can share them with your valentine and have loads of fun....you can even try some new style of kissing for your valentine this year!

A Life time of Kissing: The average person will spend an estimated 20,160 min kissing in their lifetime.

Healthy Kissing: Kissing helps reduce tooth decay because the extra saliva helps clean out your mouth.

Kissathon Record: On Valentine's Day 2004, 5,122 Philippine couples gathered together at midnight and locked lips. This kissathon beat the previous world record of 4,445 couples set in January in Chile.

Kissing: The Chinese didn't kiss until the practice was introduced by Westerners, and they're still not very keen on it.

Kissing Calories: You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.

Kissing Muscles: You use only two muscles on your face when you give a peck kiss but you use all of your facial muscles and burn more calories during a passionate kiss.

Kissing Simultaneously: More than 4,400 couples poured in the streets in Chile for a 10 second kiss, setting the world record for the largest number of people kissing simultaneously.

Night Kissing: Our brains have special neurons that help us find eachothers lips in the dark.

Valentine Kissing Record: On Valentine's Day 2004, an Italian couple made their way into the record books with a 31-hour 18-minute Valentine kiss. The couple beat the previous record by 18 minutes and 33 seconds, however, the man had to receive oxygen afterwards.

World's Longest Kiss: April 5, 1999: Karmit Tsubera and Dror Orpaz kissed for a record 30 hours and 45 minutes to win a kissing contest in Rubin Square, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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