Engineering students at Purdue University claim that on the average, it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop. However this was using an artificial licking machine they developed.
(yeah, that's why these dorky engineering nerds invented a licking machine)
This has been challenged
20 volunteers tried the experiment using their actual tongues and averaged 252 licks.
Other studies averaged out to 144 (Swarthmore Junior High School) and 411 (University of Michigan) licks.
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