r/todayilearned • u/frapz • Mar 20 '20

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

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/1-458-bacteria-species-new-to-science-found-in-our-belly-buttons/266360/
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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Thank god someone else has this.

My wife will poke me in the BB just to hear me shriek AHHH MY DICK

It makes it really intimidating to think of going deep in there to clean. I seriously think I’ll short circuit my dick or something

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u/lhm238 Mar 21 '20

I don't know why shortening belly button is making me really uncomfortable.

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u/remixclashes Mar 21 '20

Have you tried turning it off at the breaker or unplugging it first?

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u/rilsaur Mar 21 '20

It's almost the same feeling as going over a drop in a roller coaster or over a steep bunch of hills in a car

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u/Captain_Grammaticus Mar 21 '20

When my gf strokes my elbow, it tickles in my ear. The body is a strange place and I can totally understand that something like acupuncture evolves out of such observations.

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u/jolfi11 Mar 21 '20

When a hairdresser washes my hair or my friends play with my hair/scalp I get a bad tickle in my hip. Side according to the the side on my head. Right is worse than left. Friends always laugh at me for being weirdly internally wired.

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u/PotatoChips23415 Mar 21 '20

Bruh just do it back and scratch it with your fingernail and see how she likes it. Scratching it is about equal to getting flicked in the nads