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Peaces@infosec.pub to Science@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

What’s that stuff in your bellybutton? Science has the answer.

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What’s that stuff in your bellybutton? Science has the answer.

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Peaces@infosec.pub to Science@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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Advice | What’s that stuff in your bellybutton? Science has the answer.
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Hairy bellies have more bellybutton lint and other findings from the research on our navels.

Hairy bellies have more lint and other findings from the research on our navels

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  • ken_cleanairsystems@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    The full text of the “umbilical dirt” paper (cited at the end of the WaPo article) is freely available.

  • Adramis [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    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.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      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.

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        WTF did I just see, lol

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Somebody’s angling for an Ig Nobel.

  • treadful@lemmy.zip
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    Doesn’t even get into the whole bacterial strains unique to every individual thing.

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