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March 31 (UPI) -- The California woman with the world's longest tongue -- 3.8 inches -- showed off some of the tricks she can perform with her massive mouth muscle, including removing Jenga blocks.

Chanel Tapper, 34, who has held the Guinness World Record for the longest tongue (female) since 2010, said her tongue, which measures 3.8 inches from the tip to her lips, gets her an array of reactions.

"Honestly, the best reaction I could ever get when someone sees my tongue is screaming.

I actually do like when people yell or scream in shock, or horror sometimes," she told Guinness World Records.

Tapper showed off some of the tricks she has learned to perform with her tongue, including removing Jenga blocks, flipping plastic cups and holding a spoon.

That's what makes my tongue the most fun when I can do things that are outside the box with it," she said.

"My favorite thing about being a record holder has to be when I get to travel and meet other record holders as well," she said. »

Francis Fukuyama warns Trump is not a realist | Francis Fukuyama, Charlie Barnett

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Francis Fukuyama, in The End of History and the Last Man, predicted that liberal democracy would be humanity's final stage of ideological evolution.

Professor Francis Fukuyama: Just to state the obvious, we're in a very different period than when my original article and book came out.

I think that this retreat has been accelerating, especially with Donald Trump taking office in the United States. »

A PUBG dating sim has been released for April Fool’s, portraying each of its guns as schoolgirls

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

Created in collaboration with Krafton‘s AI game development studio ReLU Games, the dating sim has players attending a school and looking for romance.

As well as the dating sim, PUBG Battlegrounds itself will get an in-game event called Land, Love, Survive, which lasts until April 8 and encourages co-op play.

PUBG Battlegrounds isn’t the only game potentially getting an unexpected dating sim for April Fool’s Day. »

Cory Booker’s speech in protest of Trump breaks the Senate record

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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor since Monday night with a marathon speech that’s lasted into Tuesday afternoon.

As Booker’s speech rolled past 18 hours, it became the sixth longest in Senate history.

Booker’s speech was not a filibuster, which is a speech meant to halt the advance of a specific piece of legislation. »

Trump signs off Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal

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President Trump has approved a multibillion-pound deal for Britain to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

No 10 confirmed on Tuesday that there had been no objections from the United States and the deal would be agreed shortly.

“We are now working with the Mauritian government to finalise the deal and sign the treaty,” a No 10 spokesman said. »