The muscular tongue

The tongue is made up of eight muscles (I won't bother listing here what each of them are called because they're long, complicated words that won't stick in my memory so therefore can't be counted as something I've learnt).

But something else I found out is that the average length of a person's tongue is 10cm when measured from oropharynx - the place in the back of the throat where the tongue begins - to the tip.

That seems pretty darn long to me but I reckon Gene Simmons' tongue is even longer!

The current world record holder for the longest tongue is a guy in California, whose tongue measures 10.1cm from its tip to the middle of his top lip (so, not including all the tongue inside his mouth back to the oropharynx. Crazy.

That's him on the right.