Lips - Interesting Facts

Like fingerprints, no 2 lip impressions are precisely alike.

A passionate kiss can burn up to 50 kj of energy in a few minutes, working as many as 30 muscles.

The increased activation of saliva that kissing creates helps keep plaque that leads to dental decay at bay.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, Alfred Wolfram holds the world kissing record...he kissed 8001 people in eight hours (a kiss every 3.6 seconds).

Leonardo DaVinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's Lips

The first kiss recorded on film occurred in 1896 between John C. Rice and May Irwin in "The Kiss."

Humphrey Bogart had a prominent scar on his lip, caused by an accident involving a wooden splinter during his service in World War I.

The first screen kiss wasn't allowed in India until 1978.

The longest screen kiss in U.S. film history was between Jane Wyman and Regis Tommey in the 1940 movie "You're in the Army Now" and lasted 185 seconds.

The first interracial kiss in US TV history came in 1968, when William Shatner kissed Nichelle Nichols in a "Star Trek" episode called "Plato's Stepchildren."


Lip Idioms
stiff upper lip - to suppress all emotion, show stoic courage

pay lip service - to say something without truly meaning it

button one's lip - to remain silent