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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Ramon Antonio Vargas

Her unusually wide tongue was once her secret. Now it’s given her a world record

a woman balances a chocolate on her tongue
Brittany Lacayo, the newly minted Guinness World Record holder for female with the widest tongue. Photograph: Guinness World Records video on X

An American lawyer was once so secretive about her unusually wide tongue that she avoided giving even a glimpse of it to her legal office colleagues – but she has overcome her reticence and used the prodigious organ to clinch a Guinness World Record mark.

Brittany Lacayo of Houston, Texas, secured the organization’s title for female with the world’s widest tongue after hers came in wider than a hockey puck – and at about the same width as a credit card.

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