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From CNN.com:

When scientists talk about biodiversity hotspots, they're usually discussing places like Madagascar, New Zealand or New Caledonia. But new research proves that one of the richest biodiversity hotspots is much closer: your belly button.

Scientists for the Belly Button Biodiversity project have done a little navel-gazing, studying the belly buttons of 95 volunteers and counting. So far they have turned up 1,400 different bacterial strains, 662 of which appear to be new to science.

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*looks down toward navel*

I'm not sure I wanna know.
 
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That's fooked up
 
The Belly Button Biodiversity project - WTF? Wonder how many millions were spent on this. Is there a Toe Jam Biodiversity project?
 
Depending on the hotness of the female volunteers I wouldn't mind being part if the oversight committee on this one :D
 
No bellybutton? :eek:
You should play Adam in a church play! :D

No one need see the absent BB of a 71-year-old. :eek:

Although, on the plus side, this might drive many from the "arms" of the church.

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While I was showering this morning, I deliberately washed my belly button thoroughly. It was actually a lot more filthy than I realised!! :eek:


When I was a kid, my mum would tell me that I shouldn't play with my belly button because it would give me a stomach ache. Well.....great job, mum. Very effective, because I haven't gone anywhere near that thing for as long as I can remember. I never look there, let alone wash it!

Anyway, I finally washed it (a very strange feeling indeed), and there was brown stuff stuck to the "button", and the skin around it. :eek: Pretty disgusting.
 
I clean my belly button every shower. I sometimes even clean it in the bathroom (for obvious privacy reasons) for good measure. I discovered it's icky-ness a long time ago.

It's like another world in there.
 
I'm all for contributing further to the stunning biodiversity of our beautiful planet. Never washing this thing again.
 
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