Humans are the only animals that smile as an emotional response.
In 1948, Mayor George Phillips made it illegal for citizens not to smile in the town of Pocatello, Idaho.
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 1970 until his fatal shooting by fundamentalist army officers on October 6, 1981. Bill Foley's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination.
Smile Mask Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling. First described in Japan in 1983, the condition is attributed to the great importance placed on smiling in the Japanese service industry.
Harvey Ball (July 10, 1921 – April 12, 2001), a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts, was the man who created and popularized the two-dots-and-a-grin smiley logo.
World Smile Day was inaugurated in 1999 by Harvey Ball. It is held annually on the first Friday in October.
The catchphrase of World Smile Day is “Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.”
The world's oldest known smiley was on a 1635 Slovakian document, indicating the writer's happiness with the state of the Chamberlain of Trenčín's financial records.
An average woman smiles 62 times a day, the average man smiles only 8 times a day.
It takes 17 muscles to smile.
Humans are the only animals that smile as an emotional response.
Russians smile less than Americans due in part to a popular Russian proverb: “A smile without a reason is a sign of idiocy.”
One of the reasons Walmart failed to establish itself in Germany is that it required its checkout employees to smile at customers. This was however perceived by most Germans as unnerving, as Germans usually don't smile at strangers.
A full smile, including wrinkling around the eyes, is known as a “Duchenne smile” after 19th-century French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne.
Doctors feel that Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile was caused by muscle wastage on her right side. Another theory is that she had no front teeth.
The words “smile” and “smiling” do not occur at all in the King James version of the Bible.
Stroke victims with partial facial paralysis can lose the ability to voluntarily smile on half their face, but can still fully smile when laughing at a joke.
Even artificially produced smiles have been shown to induce happiness. So saying "cheese" for a photograph really works.
A man who committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge had left a suicide note that read "I'm going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I won't jump." Sadly nobody did.
Source Daily Express
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In 1948, Mayor George Phillips made it illegal for citizens not to smile in the town of Pocatello, Idaho.
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 1970 until his fatal shooting by fundamentalist army officers on October 6, 1981. Bill Foley's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination.
Smile Mask Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling. First described in Japan in 1983, the condition is attributed to the great importance placed on smiling in the Japanese service industry.
Harvey Ball (July 10, 1921 – April 12, 2001), a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts, was the man who created and popularized the two-dots-and-a-grin smiley logo.
The catchphrase of World Smile Day is “Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.”
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The world's oldest known smiley was on a 1635 Slovakian document, indicating the writer's happiness with the state of the Chamberlain of Trenčín's financial records.
An average woman smiles 62 times a day, the average man smiles only 8 times a day.
It takes 17 muscles to smile.
Humans are the only animals that smile as an emotional response.
Russians smile less than Americans due in part to a popular Russian proverb: “A smile without a reason is a sign of idiocy.”
One of the reasons Walmart failed to establish itself in Germany is that it required its checkout employees to smile at customers. This was however perceived by most Germans as unnerving, as Germans usually don't smile at strangers.
A full smile, including wrinkling around the eyes, is known as a “Duchenne smile” after 19th-century French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne.
Doctors feel that Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile was caused by muscle wastage on her right side. Another theory is that she had no front teeth.
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The words “smile” and “smiling” do not occur at all in the King James version of the Bible.
Stroke victims with partial facial paralysis can lose the ability to voluntarily smile on half their face, but can still fully smile when laughing at a joke.
Even artificially produced smiles have been shown to induce happiness. So saying "cheese" for a photograph really works.
A man who committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge had left a suicide note that read "I'm going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I won't jump." Sadly nobody did.
Source Daily Express
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