

While only a scant few researchers have committed their time and energy to exploring the ontogeny of navel fluff – perhaps Kruszelnicki and Steinhauser are the only ones – there is a serious research effort underway at North Carolina State University to understand what else lives in our belly buttons. Based on this, he reasoned that those whose navels accumulate fluff might have generally cleaner and more hygienic belly buttons, because the removal of lint takes everything else along for the ride. Stomach hairs, it seems, do not discriminate. Based on the chemical readout, Steinhauser suspects that the remaining matter is made of house dust, flakes of skin, fat, proteins, and sweat.


What he found, however, was that other debris became folded into navel lint as well. If his navel fluff were made solely of fibres from his t-shirt, then the analysis would reveal that the lint was made entirely of cellulose. He analysed the chemical composition of a BBL sample that he collected after wearing a plain white 100% cotton t-shirt. On average, a single piece had a mass of 1.82 milligrams, though seven pieces were more than 7.2 milligrams, and the winner was a true belly button behemoth, weighing a whopping 9.17 milligrams.īut Steinhauser took his research one step further. Their combined weight didn't even reach a single gram. In all Steinhauser collected 503 samples from his own belly button. Though he insists that he maintains good personal hygiene, including a shower each morning, his navel invariably becomes filled with fluff by the day's end. For reasons known only to himself, Steinhauser collected his own navel fluff each evening for three years. In 2009, a Vienna University of Technology researcher named Georg Steinhauser published his hypothesis in the eyebrow-raising journal Medical Hypotheses. Kruszelnicki wasn't the only person to take a stab at what forms the fluff that fills belly buttons around the world. Hairs around the belly button, they think, operate as a "one-way ratchet mechanism", stealing tiny fibres from inside your clothes and depositing them into your navel. While perhaps not the world's leading experts on the topic, Dr Karl and his colleagues arrived at an explanation for the formation of navel fluff that, at least, makes intuitive sense. It turned out that shaving belly hair indeed prevented the accumulation of lint. Multiple remixes have been made by different artists, including Machine Gun Kelly, Hodgy Beats, Nappy Boy, Fabolous, Ludacris, and Lupe Fiasco.In addition to the online survey, Kruszelnicki and his colleagues collected samples from willing volunteers and also asked some to shave the hair from around their belly buttons. This version started the feud of Travis Porter and Roscoe Dash because Travis Porter made Roscoe Dash (ATL was Roscoe Dash's stage name at the time) a featured artist of the song on one of the group's mixtapes in 2009 after finding this out Dash removed the group from the song and re-recorded it with Soulja Boy. The original version was named "Turnt Up", produced by Vybe Beatz / DJD and features Atlanta rap group Travis Porter and rapper YT. Also, the song features the Joseph Wheeler High School basketball team, coming off a loss and needing inspiration. The song features a skateboarder trying to jump a gap but continuously falling each time, until the end of the video, in which he jumps and clears the gap. The video features Roscoe Dash and Soulja Boy performing the song alone in some sort of stadium. The song features rapper Soulja Boy and was produced by Vybe Beatz and K.E. " All the Way Turnt Up" is the first single by rapper Roscoe Dash released from his debut album Ready Set Go!.
