What’s that stuff in your bellybutton? Science has the answer.
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Hairy bellies have more lint and other findings from the research on our navels
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Hairy bellies have more lint and other findings from the research on our navels
WP gift article expires in 14 days.
The full text of the "umbilical dirt" paper (cited at the end of the WaPo article) is freely available.
The article says that a lot of people catch fibers from their clothes, but like...I don't feel like my shirt gets into my belly button? I wonder if the survey from 2002 also took into account weight.
Maybe it's because you use a TC Tuggers Top. It's the only shirt with the tugging knob to keep the shirt from getting ruined when you pull it because it's getting bunched up.
WTF did I just see, lol
Somebody's angling for an Ig Nobel.
Doesn't even get into the whole bacterial strains unique to every individual thing.