Einstein hated wearing socks. In a letter to his wife he said that the reason he stopped wearing them was because his big toe always ended up making a hole in them.
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Roughly one out of every three…
Roughly one out of every three pair of socks you wear was made in a place known as “Sock City”. A small Chinese village in the 1980s it has grown to employ over 100,000 people and produces 8 billion socks a year.
The Russian army didn’t have socks for …
The Russian army didn’t have socks for 300 years, instead they used footwraps but they are going to introduce socks in 2013.
The oldest surviving pair of cloth socks …
The oldest surviving pair of cloth socks were found in Egypt were actually designed to wear with sandals.