Kiss
A KISS (from Old English cyssan “to kiss,” in turn from coss “a kiss.”) is the touching with the lips. The scientific name for kissing is osculation.
- The longest recorded kiss took place in New York City, USA, on December 5, 2001, between Louisa Almedovar and Rich Langley. It lasted 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds.
- Kissing is the name of a town in Germany between Augsburg and Munich.
- In written correspondence a kiss has been represented by the letter ‘X’ since at least 1763.
- The world record for the largest group kiss was set on 22nd July 2007 in Weston-super-Mare at Channel 4’s T4 on the Beach. More than 32,000 people kissed for 20 seconds, smashing the previous record set in France by over 30,000 people.
- On September 1, 2007, 6980 couples kissed for 10 seconds in Tuzla, Bosnia erasing the previous Guinness World kissing Records of the Philippines and Hungary (for synchronised osculation in 2004 with 5327 Filipino couples, overtaken by Hungary in 2005 with 5875 couples; Filipinos came back in February this year with 6124 couples but the Hungarians responded in June with 6613 couples). The record now awaits official certification.
