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Are You An Ear Rumbler?

Are You An Ear Rumbler?
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Science (and twitter) has discovered that a small amount of people can make a “rumbling sound” in their ears.

It’s done by contracting the tensor typani muscle inside your ear, and it creates a rumbling sound. Personally, I’ve always been able to do this but it’s apparently quite uncommon which came as a surprise to me as it did other people. Let us know below if you’re an “ear rumbler”. A twitter post gained traction talking about the “sh*tty superpower” with people discovering they can do it, and other just becoming confused.

“A part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear,” Massimo wrote on Twitter. “Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound.”

If you want to try and make the sound, if you can’t already, try scrunching up your eyes and face and listen out for a rumble in your ears. Make sure no one is around though as you may look like you’ve lost the plot.

“To me it sounds like when there’s a big thunderstorm,” one Twitter commenter wrote. “The thunder is just lowly rolling around in the sky forever with only tiny flashes of lightning that don’t leave the clouds.”

There is now a sub reddit dedicated to the pointless phenomenon. But if can’t do it, it doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t, it’s another human function which is absolutely pointless. Just like the appendix but we’ll get into that another time…
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