Belly Button: A Hidden Microbial Wonderland

Your belly button is hosting thousands of bacterial species right now and some of them exist nowhere

else on fucking Earth. Scientists swabbed hundreds of belly buttons and found

bacteria that were completely unknown to science until they found them in people's navels.

What the actual fuck? Your belly button is basically a personalized petri dish right

in the middle of your torso. The Belly Button Biodiversity Project discovered that

each person's belly button has its own unique ecosystem of microbes - some people had bacteria

that literally no one else on Earth had. It's like your belly button is its own

little planet with exclusive species. Here's the wild shit: they found an average of 67