8 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know About Your Tongue

THE ABILITY TO DO TONGUE TRICKS ISN'T GENETIC.

Can’t make a fleur de lis with your tongue? Not your mom’s fault. It turns out that the longstanding belief that the ability to roll, flip, and bend your tongue is a genetic trait is not true. John McDonald, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Delaware, recently debunked this myth in an NPR interview. If such an ability were genetic, then identical twins would both be able to do it, which is not the case, as was shown in a 1952 study by geneticist Philip Matlock.