15 Facts About Belly Buttons Proving What An Intriguing Body Part They Really Are

10Belly button piercings can take time to heal

Think before getting your belly button pierced because this is one thing that takes a long time to heal. And when we say a long time, that doesn’t mean days but almost 6 months to a year. If you don’t take care of it, you could also get infected.

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11Belly button lint can get hideous

Belly button lint or navel fluff is a mixture of cloth fibre, hair, dirt and dead skin cells accumulated in a belly button. If the navel isn’t cleaned regularly, the lint can increase. Men tend to have more fluff than women because of more hair in the area.

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12Some people collect Lint as a hobby

As weird as it seems, some people actually have a hobby of collecting navel lint like Graham Barker from Australia who has even made it to the Guinness book of world records in 2000 for his unusual and gross navel lint collection as the largest in the world. Who in his right mind would want to collect navel fluff? Artist Rachel Betty Case has even made a collection of bears from navel fluff. Even grosser.

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