{"id":67201,"date":"2020-03-26T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=67201"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:31:24","slug":"are-you-an-ear-rumbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/are-you-an-ear-rumbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You An Ear Rumbler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Science (and twitter) has discovered that a small amount of people can make a \u201crumbling sound\u201d in their ears.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s done by contracting the tensor typani muscle inside your ear, and it creates a rumbling sound. Personally, I\u2019ve always been able to do this but it\u2019s apparently quite uncommon which came as a surprise to me as it did other people. Let us know below if you\u2019re an \u201cear rumbler\u201d. A twitter post gained traction talking about the \u201csh*tty superpower\u201d with people discovering they can do it, and other just becoming confused.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear. Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FjD36qFACU\">https:\/\/t.co\/FjD36qFACU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ianKb60EK8\">pic.twitter.com\/ianKb60EK8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rainmaker1973\/status\/1229442982526488576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear,&#8221; Massimo wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try and make the sound, if you can\u2019t 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\u2019ve lost the plot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me it sounds like when there\u2019s a big thunderstorm,&#8221; one Twitter commenter wrote. &#8220;The thunder is just lowly rolling around in the sky forever with only tiny flashes of lightning that don\u2019t leave the clouds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"CONTAINER_REPEATABLE_ARTICLE_IN_TEXT_MOBILE_2\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"ad-wrap\">There is now a sub reddit dedicated to the pointless phenomenon. But if can\u2019t do it, it doesn\u2019t matter. It really doesn\u2019t, it\u2019s another human function which is absolutely pointless. Just like the appendix but we\u2019ll get into that another time&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science (and twitter) has discovered that a small amount of people can make a \u201crumbling sound\u201d in their ears. It\u2019s done by contracting the tensor typani muscle inside your ear, and it creates a rumbling sound. Personally, I\u2019ve always been able to do this but it\u2019s apparently quite uncommon which came as a surprise to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":67208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,256,1610,1454,1295],"class_list":["post-67201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-news","tag-science","tag-science-news","tag-worldwide","tag-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67209,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67201\/revisions\/67209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}