Published 16:11 IST, May 5th 2020

UK: Student conducts experiment to find how many licks it takes to finish lollipop

Amid lockdown, people are trying various bizarre experiments to keep themselves busy and a 23-year-old student from UK took the 'lollipop experiment’.

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Amid coronavirus lockdown, people are trying various bizarre experiments to keep mselves busy. While some people are tuning kitchen floor into a treadmill, one 23-year-old student from United Kingdom reportedly took 'lollipop experiment’ in a bid to produce some interesting result.

According to an international media report, James Hunt, who lives in Chester, was so bored with quarantine life that he decided to find out how many licks it would take to finish candy stick. engineering student spent almost two hours licking a strawberry Chupa Chups lolly down to stick n a ‘painful test of stamina’. While speaking to media outlet, 23-year-old said that his mission was born out of ‘sheer boredom’.

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Hunt said that due to lockdown he had all time in world. He believes that licking a lolly down to nub isn’t easy. At first he set himself regular goals of 250 licks, however, by 500 his tongue started to hurt. He went on to explain that when lolly became smaller, evolving through gritty st and getting a smoor, testier point, he battled stinging patience. He added that ‘experiment’ was definitely good training for him.

He battled with candy stick. He even informed that it took him almost 1417 licks to finally finish Lollipop. He reportedly even produced a handy graph to prove naysayers he hadn’t fudged his figures.

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From making facemasks to card tricks

While James experimented with lollipop, Derek Kawakami, mayor of Hawaii took to social media to post fun videos in order to keep his constituents and followers entertained. Derek experimented with different things in a series of videos. He called video ‘Stay Home Kauai’.

In his social media series, Derek tried everything, from teaching to make homemade facemasks to interesting science experiments and card tricks, he does it all. Derek while talking to media said his videos started garnering a lot of attraction after he posted a tutorial to make face masks and since n he has been doing this every night. Derek said that he started this with his wife, who is a middle school teacher, and was concerned about her students and wanted to do a few projects to keep children occupied during lockdown.