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Navel lint (also known by names such as navel fluff, belly button lint, belly button fluff, and umbilical dip lint) is an accumulation of fluffy fibers in the navel cavity. Many people find that, at the beginning and end of the day, a small lump of fluff has appeared in the navel cavity. This lint is an accumulation of cloth fibers that are scraped by body hair. The reasons for its accumulation in the navel are a subject of speculation. A likely hypothesis is that rubbing of navel hairs and clothing contributes to a build-up of static electricity resulting in the collection of clothing fibers and to a lesser extent, dead skin cells.

Georg Steinhauser, a chemist writing in the journal Medical Hypotheses said that small pieces of fluff first form in the hair and then end up in the navel at the end of the day. He further said that abdominal hair often seems to grow in concentric circles around the navel, the scaly structure of the hair enhances the abrasion of minuscule fibers from the shirt and directs the lint towards the belly button.

Georg Steinhauser established that shaving one's belly will result in a fluff-free navel but only until the hairs grow back. His other suggestions include wearing old clothes, as they tend to shed less lint than newer garments, which can lose up to one thousandth of their weight to the belly button over the course of a year. A body piercing can also be used, with belly button rings particularly effective at sweeping away fibers before they lodge.

A link to a collector...http://www.feargod.net/fluff.html


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Outstanding Nimrod :!: Believe it or not that's something off a hot debate in this house.......not anymore though :wink:

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Why do men have nipples? That strange bodily question has baffled so many that it even has become the title of a book by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg. Interestingly, solving this puzzle has more to do with understanding your embryonic development than your evolutionary past.

Hi everyone. Cara Santa Maria here. Why do men have nipples? I mean, people are mammals who evolved from other mammals. If you go back far enough in the evolutionary chain, our ancestors were no longer all that mammal-ish, but that was over 200 million years ago. So, ever since we mammals had mammary glands, it's been the females of the species who needed the nipples. You know, to feed their young. So then, why do men have nipples? Why would they've ever evolved them to begin with?

Ah, but we're thinking inside the evolutionary box. Have you ever heard the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?" Ever wondered what it means?

Ontogeny refers to the development of a single organism in utero. phylogeny is the evolutionary history of an entire species. So where do nipples fit into this? Well, back in the 1800s, some scientists noticed that changes an embryo goes through in the womb seemed to mimic the whole evolutionary history of that animal. And although this hypothesis kinda seems like it sorta looks like it might be true, turns out it doesn't really hold water. See, we shouldn't be thinking about nipple phylogeny, what about nipple ontogeny?

Well, in the womb, we go through different developmental stages: zygote, embryo, fetus. And if you remember, females have two X chromosomes, while males have an X and Y. It's that Y chromosome that makes a man a man. But as an embryo, we all kind of start out, I dunno, unisex. At about the sixth week of pregnancy, a special part of the Y chromosome, called the SRY gene, gets activated, and it tells the male embryo to start developing manly hormones and eventually, you know, manly bits. See, this starts at six weeks, but nipples develop at five and a half weeks, thus...men have nipples.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the honey badger... :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
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Mystery of the century, you guys. No, the millenium. All times. A new paper in the journal Brain, Behavior and Evolution has a new answer to the eternal question: why do our fingers and toes get all wrinkly after bathtime? The answer: traction.
The old solution is that wrinkling is simply the result of your fingers and toes absorbing water after a long period of being submerged. But there are problems with this! First: why is it only our fingers and toes that get wrinkly? Second: why is this such an unusual trait among mammals (only humans and macaques get wrinkly)? Third: why, if this is a simple tale of osmosis, do our fingers and toes cease to wrinkle when nerves to them are cut?
The paper, which you can read here, suggests that wrinkled fingers actually provide drainage for water so as to ensure greater traction, just like tires on a car. By examining the soaked fingers of 28 subjects, the scientists discovered that each finger showed a similar pattern of wrinkles: as the New York Times puts it, "unconnected channels diverging away from one another as they got more distant from the fingertips." That allows water to drain away more efficiently from the fingers as they are pressed against an object, giving more surface area and a firmer grip.
Of course, this is all just a theory, and the scientists still have to study whether these precise rivulets actually do provide a better grip, as well as why the trait is found only in these few species. Still, it's a major step to answering the question we all asked as children (or as privileged adults with hot tubs).

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Nimrod wrote:Ladies and Gentlemen, the honey badger... :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
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Rhinoceros horns are made from Keratin, the same type of protein that makes hair and fingernails

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palindrome: A word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward

such as:

GO HANG A SALAMI, I'M A LASAGNA HOG
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luvtick wrote:palindrome: A word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward

such as:

GO HANG A SALAMI, I'M A LASAGNA HOG




Been waitin to say this for awhile:
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In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand, or attempted to do so.
What a long strange trip it is.
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Posted this once before...ever heard of TYPOGLYCEMIA?????

Believe it or
not you can read it!

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
I was rdanieg. But beuasce of the phaonmneal pweor of the
hmuan mnid (aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy) it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers
in a wrod are witrten, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition
is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia -

Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
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luvtick wrote:Posted this once before...ever heard of TYPOGLYCEMIA?????

Believe it or
not you can read it!

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
I was rdanieg. But beuasce of the phaonmneal pweor of the
hmuan mnid (aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy) it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers
in a wrod are witrten, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition
is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia -

Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
That's crazy funny, who wluod hvae tuhoght that was pssoilbe? Ha!
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^^^ Very Weird :)

The Japanese word for male masturbation is “senzuri” which translates to “a thousand rubs.”

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Hermit crabs can be downright cunts to each other.

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More fascinating shit. I am quite impressed.

The following text was copied from the link, but do follow the link to see the very cool photos.

Water bears (Tardigrades)

These tiny creatures can withstand more hardship than any other animal on the planet, and you can probably find some in your backyard. They are truly nature's greatest survivors.Tardigrades (Known as water bears or moss piglets) are some of the most interesting animals in the world, simply because they can survive so well in the most extreme conditions. 

These small, segmented animals were discovered by Johann August Ephraim Goeze, an aquatic zoologist, in 1773. Over 900 species of water bears have been found everywhere around the world - from the Himalayan mountains (at elevations of over 6000 meters) to deep ocean areas (4000 meters below sea level). They are most often discovered on mosses, lichens, and various types of sediments. An easy way to observe them is to soak a piece of moss in spring water.

Freeze them, boil them, dry them, expose them to open space & radiation - and after 200 years they'll still be alive!The amazing thing about these tiny, 1mm creatures is just how resilient they are to about everything. You can put them in space, in hot sea vents, and freeze them - no matter what you do, they'll survive.You see, Tardigrades can survive in:

Extreme cold (at -272 degrees Celsius for a couple of minutes, or at -200 degrees Celsius for days on end)

Extreme heat (being heated to 181 degrees Celsius for a couple of minutes)

Extreme radiation (easily surviving 5,700 grays of radiation. A gray is about as much radiation as 5,000 chest x-rays. 10-20 grays can easily kill a human and most animals.)

Extreme dehydration (A tardigrade can survive for a decade with no water)

In a vacuum - Yes, a water bear can survive in space!

These tiny organisms can be found everywhere - in fact, there are probably hundreds of these creatures just a few meters from where you are standing. They aren't as publicized as they should be, but these creatures are truly fascinating. It's amazing that these miniscule beings can survive for so long in the circumstances when others will certainly die out.

So here's to Tardigrades, nature's greatest survivors! They are also kinda cute.

Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/10 ... EJ7pElD.99 
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