Our bellybuttons are home to hundreds of undiscovered species. io9.
The Belly Button Biodiversity project recently began taking DNA samples from people’s navels to find out what bacteria is living within. Of the roughly 1,400 bacterial strains discovered thus far, at least 662 of them are completely unknown.
A noble scientific study, with noble findings. Enough to frighten the average person, and make him or her race off the shower to scrub out the vermin with a Q-Tip and toothbrush with Ajax. Egad!
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I’ll have to make sure not to store anything important there unless I clean it first.
Somehow, it seems like we won’t have to worry the kitchen sink will be in there, Nunly.
The studies that get funded in this country…