26-30 Underwear Facts
26. A man sued the Australian Knitting Mills for his underwear giving him “Itchy Nuts”. – Source
27. The Wright Brothers sometimes used fabric from women’s underwear to build their plane. – Source
28. Devout, married Catholics have the most enjoyable and most frequent sex of any demographic group. 68 percent of Catholics professed to have sex at least once a week versus 56 percent of non-Catholics and 30 percent of Catholics had bought erotic underwear versus 20 percent non-Catholics. – Source
29. There’s a type of underwear called the “C-string”. – Source
30. There is a tradition in Italy of wearing red underwear on New Year’s Eve to bring good luck for the upcoming year. – Source
31-35 Underwear Facts
31. The United Sates Navy is testing underwear made out of aerogel, Earth’s lowest density solid and most efficient insulator. – Source
32. As part of an experiment, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata wore the same underwear for a month on the ISS. The silver-coated underwear was designed to be anti-bacterial and odor-eliminating so that an astronaut that exercises every day can wear them continuously. – Source
33. It is illegal in Thailand to leave your house without underwear. – Source
34. People in Zimbabwe were buying used underwear until it was banned. – Source
35. Women didn’t wear underwear in the middle ages. – Source
36-39 Underwear Facts
36. Some Victoria’s Secret underwear is made in South Carolina prisons. – Source
37. In the Bible, God made the prophet Jeremiah bury his underwear in a hole, then dig it up (roughly) three months later and put the soiled clothes back on, using his underwear as a metaphor for Jerusalem. – Source
38. One of the ways people kept cool before air conditioning was storing their underwear in the freezer. – Source
39. The “Something Borrowed” in the bridal rhyme “Something Old, Something New” should properly be, as a symbol of fertility, the underwear of a woman who had borne children. – Source
