12 Belly Button Facts (We Just Had To Share)

Belly button smelly button – how weird are these little divots most of us have? What exactly can someone do with a belly button? Pick at it a little? Scrunch it up, sure. Clean it out, probably – there’s a fair amount of lint in there thanks to our lovely hairy tummies. There’s also an entire ecosystem of friendly bacteria in there. Still, that doesn’t really leave much which we can do with it. Oh! Here’s something kind of interesting: chimpanzees have the closest approximation to human belly buttons in the animal kingdom, so that’s kind of neat. Little craters marking the fact that were once physically connected to our mothers, and that is pretty weird if you think about it too hard. We at Cracked love to overthink silly and mundane things, so here are 12 facts to get your mind back on your stomach's first, and strangely enough, sexiest scar.