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TIL A researcher named Georg Steinhauser collected 503 samples of fluff from his own belly button, the largest weighing 9.17 mg, to study its contents - which are primarily composed of tiny fibers from shirts

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nejZb TIL Australian doctor Barry Marshall was mocked by physicians of his time when he hypothesized that the bacterial species H. pylori can cause stomach ulcers. To prove his hypothesis, he drank cultured H. pylori and developed stomach ulcers as a result. He later received the Nobel Prize in 2005.
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