NY Father-Daughter Duo Sets Guinness World Record

A father and daughter from Syracuse have been recognized the The Guinness Book of World Records for world's widest tongue.

Byron Schlenker, 47, picked up a copy of the trivia book, to help his daughter with a school project. He was curious to see the current record for tongue width. He measured his tongue and found that his was 3.3 inches, where the record was 3.1 inches.

Schlenker had this to say about his new found fame, as reported by The NY Post:

I get stopped by people at the grocery store or when I’m out in town to take a picture. Schlenker told Barcroft. I even had one lady who asked me to lick her Guinness Book, which I politely declined.

After seeing her dad's local fame, Emily, 14, measured her own tongue and was verified as the female world record-holder at 2.8 inches.