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  'I've got the world's longest tongue'
Updated 09 November 2001, 11.59
Tongue and ruler
Here's a world record to set tongues wagging.

German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue.

Annika and her tongue
"My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue - I could make lots of money with it one day," said Annika.

The twelve-year-old from Tangstedt, near Hamburg, can lick the ice cream from the bottom of a cornet - while her friends have to use their fingers.

Stick it out

Long tongue
"I'm just proud that now people everywhere can read about me and my tongue," she said.

"On my first day at school I had to stick my tongue out for everyone."

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