Can You Lick Your Elbow?

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This is supposedly impossible. According, in any case to all those chain emails.

You know the ones, they list trivial facts, including something like:

Yeah, I tried.

Obviously.

But I succeeded. I actually could lick my elbow.

I could do the impossible!

I did a little research.

Got all ready to send this photo off to the Guinness World Records and everything. I was gonna become a star!

But no. Turns out, it’s not impossible. About 1 in 10 or so people can lick their elbow, depends on their bodzy shape and size, flexibility, and so forth. Apparently, Guinness World Records get 5 emails a day from people on the subject.

So I’m far from alone.

Can you do it? Can you lick your elbow?