Cat Got Your Tongue?
Interesting Facts
• Smoking decreases the amount of taste buds you have.
• Your frenulum is what attaches your tongue to the bottom of your mouth, therefore you can not swallow your tongue.
• Tongues are healthy when pinkish-red.
• The tongue is infected when a yellowish coating forms on it.
• When you are born you have around 10,000 taste buds.
• Tongue rolling is inherited by parents.
• 85% percent of people can curl their tongue like a hot dog bun.
• A tongue is like a fingerprint, because every tongue has a different print.
• 50% of bacteria in the mouth, lives on the tongue.
• If your tongue has a thin, white film on it, that means there is bacteria on it.
• There are taste buds on the top of your mouth and cheeks, in addition to your tongue.
• Smokers are between 6-27 times more likely to have tongue cancer, then nonsmokers.
• An infected area on the tongue is called, a thrush.
• La lengua is the Spanish word for "tongue".
Animal Interesting Facts
• A pig's tongue has around 15,000 taste buds.
• A chameleon's tongue is about two times its body size.
• A frog's tongue is attached in the front of the mouth, instead of the back.
• The african dwarf frog species, don't have tongues.
• The tongue of a full grown blue whale is as long as a full grown elephant.
• The tongue of a crocidile is on the top of it's mouth.
