The world's largest tongue is bigger than your phone

Braydon McCullough has a big tongue. This American has just officially broken the record for the world's biggest tongue. According to Guinness World Records, he has a kind of 'superpower' that enables him to make his organ swell.

This man has macroglossia

Not all disorders are fatal, dangerous or even painful. Braydon McCullough, for example, suffers from 'macroglossia'. No, it has nothing to do with lip gloss, but rather... the volume of his tongue.

Note 'volume' and not 'size'. Indeed, this twenty-year-old man doesn't have the longest tongue in the world, but rather the fattest! And his macroglossia (a term used to describe the hypertrophy of this organ) is nothing new.

He told Guinness World Records:

Ever since I can remember, I've noticed that I have an abnormally large tongue.

But it was when he was in high school that he realized his organ was exceptional. He testifies:

Many of my friends and family had mixed reactions. They were either astonished or disgusted. Some were both! Many people had never seen anything like my tongue, so they were very intrigued.

He has a technique for making his tongue swell

Braydon McCullough's tongue doesn't always look like this. According to him, he's able to make it 'swell', without it hurting. When he uses this secret technique, his tongue reaches a circumference of 16 centimeters.

According to Guinness World Records, he has just beaten the previous record, held by Belgian Sacha Feiner (who has a tongue with a circumference of 14.73 centimeters!).

This article has been translated from Gentside FR

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