Electrifying Facts About Kissing That You’ll Love

Sharing a kiss is no doubt the simplest way to engage with your partner and express that giddy feeling of butterflies they give you.

Of course, it’s such a normal thing that we don’t even bat an eye anymore when we do it, or see it.

But like anything else, there’s more beneath the surface about kissing, like health benefits, origins of etymology, and the science of kissing.

Read on to learn about many people’s favorite hobby, kissing!

In total, one kiss uses 146 muscles working together. You may think the majority of those are in your face, but actually, 112 of those are postural muscles, and the remainder 34 is various facial muscles.

Even so, the muscle used the most in a kiss is the muscle around your mouth, of course, called the orbicularis oris.

How did researchers find out something like this? Well, they studied couples kissing underneath an MRI scanner. Imagine that experiment!

Sometimes if you want to be cute and write a love letter to your significant other, you’ll sign it off with “XOXO,” as everyone knows means “hugs and kisses”.

It seems so normal to us, but no one ever questions the origins of this funky signature.

Back in the Middle Ages, many people couldn’t read or write. Peasants especially were sadly illiterate.