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Tuesday 19 June 2012

Belly button

Your belly button (also known as the navel) is formed from scar tissue left over from the umbilical cord that connected you to your mother’s placenta.

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In Ancient Egypt, only the pharaoh was allowed a belly button piercing.  If anyone else got on they would be executed.

Cusco, the ancient capital of the Incan Empire, literally means belly button as the Incas thought their capital to be "the belly button of the world".

Alfred Hitchcock was born with a belly button but at some point in his life it was surgically removed. During one of the many operations done on the British director's stomach, a doctor stretched skin over the area where the belly button used to be.

Because of TV censorship, actress Mariette Hartley was not allowed to show her belly button on Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek episode All Our Yesterdays in 1969 but later Roddenberry got even when he gave Hartley "two" belly buttons in the sci-fi movie Genesis II (1973).

Cher became the first actress to reveal her belly button on TV in 1975, when her navel was seen during an episode of The Cher Show.

You can tell twins apart by looking at their belly buttons, which are scars and not determined by genetics.

A person's belly button depth isn’t determined by the cut at birth, but just randomly how theirf stump heals.

Belly button lint forms because your hairs point toward your navel, and breathing causes your shirt to move up and down, transporting loose clothing fibers forward along those hairs, but not backward.

The average man has 1.8 milligrams of belly button lint in his navel at any given time.


Australian Graham Barker was officially recognized in November 2000 for possessing the largest collection of belly button lint, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Barker had collected 22.1 grams of navel lint over a sixteen year period, filling three large bottles.

In early 2011, North Carolina scientists set up The Belly Button Biodiversity Project. in which they examined the genetic makeup of the bacterial found in the belly buttons of 60 volunteers. One individual, who hadn't washed in several years, hosted two species of extremophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents.

The belly button is so dirty scientists are finding new unknown bacteria. One person had bacterium previously found only on Japanese soil, where he had never been.

The belly button of a blue whale is about 8 inches (20 cms) wide.

Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.

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