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Meet the Man with the World's Strongest Tongue
Thomas Blackthorne shares the intense and unique challenge of setting the record for the world's strongest tongue.
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Hi, my name is Thomas Blackthorne and I lift weights with my tongue
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I have the world's strongest tongue. The challenges of this record are that I made a very stupid mistake
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by thinking I would beat it by as much as possible so that nobody would ever challenge it
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Not realizing that every year after that, productions from around the world, Mexico, Germany, France and other places say
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can you beat your record? Three words to describe this record are
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painful, a little bit frightening and painful. So how do you prepare for extreme tongue lifting
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Well, you need a block of wood, a hammer, a nail and a tongue
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And that's how you prepare for extreme tongue lifting. What is the meaning of this dragon snake
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So the meaning of this dragon snake creature is it's the heraldic quest of the Visconti family ruled in Milan
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which is where I'm doing this record and I like to make something that represents the city
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So this is the heraldic emblem. Normally he would be eating a man or a child
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but I took that out and put his forked tongue, it's wrapping around a nail like the nails I put through my tongue
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So it's Milan that's welcoming me with its forked tongue. www.globalonenessproject.org