Why Your Belly Button Has Lint

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 28, 2009 4:33 PM CST

(Newser) – Just so you know: Navel lint is caused by a unique arrangement of abdominal hairs that are positioned in concentric circles around the belly button and “act like a kind of barbed hooks,” the Telegraph reports. The discovery comes from an Austrian doctor... Read full story »

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