Belly button lint

Some people find belly button lint disgusting. Some people collect it. Some people study it. Georg Steinhauser, a Austrian chemist did work for three years on how the belly button gets lint in it. He found that there are certain hairs on your stomach that pull pieces of lint in to the general area of your belly button, and the belly button is a cave that offers shelter. Other things that can get trapped in the belly button are dead skin, fat, sweat and dust. The hairs that pull things in have scales that trap and snatch  pieces of lint from your shirt, and push them towards the belly button. He discovered much of this after examining 503 pieces of his own belly button lint. If you shave your stomach and around your belly button, you will not have any more belly button lint until the hairs grow back. If you  wear older clothes, you will not get as much belly button lint as newer clothes, as newer clothes have much more lint then older clothes. Belly button rings also do a good job of sweeping the lint away before it gets into the belly button. An earlier australian study shows that the person most likely to get belly button lint if a slightly overweight, middle aged man with a very hairy stomach. The reason why it is mostly blue is that most people usually wear blue or gray pants, and when these pants rub up against the body, the lint finds its way up to the belly button.  If you get a lot of belly button lint and you do not clean it out, then you could get a blackhead because of it.

One person, Graham Baker,  has been collecting belly button lint since 1984, and now is in the Guinness book of world records and was asked to appear on Ripleys show but declined. He does it simply because he is curious, and enjoys it. He has collected three small jars. There are many crazy ideas about how it got there, such as tiny aliens who place it there, beard hair from tiny dwarves that live in the belly button, from the missing socks from other dimensions, lint monsters that place it in the belly button while we sleep, that aliens abduct us when we are sleeping and force us to hold fashion shows in ugly, shedding clothing, secret glands that produce belly button fluff, and particles from space that attach to tiny intelligent beings that search for other intelligent beings. These intelligent beings go into our bodies to search for intelligence through our belly buttons, and the particles are left behind. There is even one theory that if we study it further, its quantum properties shall reveal the secrets of hyperspacial travel or into another dimension.

Many people find belly button lint disgusting, and it is a bit, but we do not realize that there are many secrets left to find about the human body, and that everyone finds something fascinating. (I find still find it disgusting, though that might be because I do not get any)