While it's not known exactly how KISSES got their name, it is a popular theory that the candy was named for the sound or motion of the chocolate being deposited during the manufacturing process.

Hershey makes more than 80 million HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Chocolates every day at its chocolate factories in Hershey and Virginia.

The street lamps in Hershey, PA are shaped like HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Chocolates.

It takes approximately 95 HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Chocolates to equal one pound of chocolate.

In 1942, production of HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Chocolates was halted to save foil for the war effort.

HERSHEY'S HUGS Chocolates got their name because they look like little KISSES Chocolates being hugged by white chocolate.

The iconic HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand turned 100 on July 7, 2007. To celebrate the occasion, The Hershey Company unveiled "The World's Largest HERSHEY'S KISSES Chocolate" in Hershey, Pa., The Sweetest Place on Earth. The giant chocolate weighed in at 30,540 pounds, well above the previous chocolate candy world record of 15,026 pounds. Wrapped in silver foil with a giant plume, the HERSHEY'S KISSES Chocolate was weighed by Guinness World Records at a private birthday celebration at HERSHEY'S CHOCOLATE WORLD attraction on July 7th. The World's Largest HERSHEY'S KISSES Chocolate was on public display through July 12.

If stranded on a desert island, more than half of Americans surveyed would rather have an unlimited supply of HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand SPECIAL DARK Chocolates than their favorite book.

The longest ever consecutive string of HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Chocolates was more than four miles long! It was laid in the spring of 2003 to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network at Penn State Children's Hospital. The event earned a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records.