It's National Kissing Day!

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National Kissing Day: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Smooching

July 6 is National Kissing Day. Here are a few fascinating factoids about the art of canoodling.

Nothing says love like a great kiss. In honor of National Kissing Day we have rounded up a few salient pieces of trivia about the kiss for our Richfield readers. 1) Origin of Kissing: Disputed, according to author Andrea Demirjian, who wrote "Kissing: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About One of Life’s Sweetest Pleasures." In a 2007 interview with National Public Radio, Demirjian said there are two schools of thought about how kissing came about: One that argues it is an instinctual act and another that argues it is learned through culture. “(Some anthropologists) trace it to things such as an evolution from suckling on the breast to mothers passing regurgitated food into a baby's mouth, which doesn't sound very appetizing, but if …

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