12 Interesting Facts About Smiles You Never Knew

According to science, neurons in the brain have a synchronizing feature that keeps you in sync with who are you speaking to. If they smile, you’ll smile!

Genuine smiles — where you smile big enough to squint your eyes — boosts your immune system by decreasing cortisol in you body.

Sure, it might not mean anything until we’re a little bit older, but babies start smiling in the womb.

Thanks to endorphins from smiling, faking it till you make it actually works!

Studies have proven that 70% of people find smiling faces to be better-looking than faces with makeup.

Not only will those endorphins elevate your mood, but they will also lower your blood pressure — so essentially, smiles save lives!

It takes 26 muscles to smile – so work out your face!

Smiling shows your boss that you are engaged and easy to work with, i.e. it’s your way up the corporate ladder.

Scientists have determined that there are 19 kinds of smiles ranging from overjoyed to polite.

While, contrary to popular belief, it takes more muscles to smile than to frown, it’s easier to smile since we’ve worked out those muscles more.

Humans can detect smiles from more than 300 feet away, which developed out of a need to be able to distinguish friend from foe.

While it’s not always easy to identify a genuine smile, all people — and even some animals — recognize a smile and what it means.