Hey guys & gals! Here are 10 interesting T-shirt facts you may not know about! Well, neither do I! Hahaha :) 1.T-shirts were adopted for the first time by miners during the late 1800’s as a convenient covering for hot environments . 2.T-shirts became very popular in United States after the beautiful performance of Marlon Brando in 1951’s production “A Streetcar Named Desire” were he wore a custom made T-shirt. 3.Vast majority of T-shirts are made of cotton. 4.Over 2 billion T-shirts are sold worldwide each year. 5.Most expensive new T-shirt was sold by Hanes, sponsor of 1996 Centennial Olympic Games as a part of a fund raising effort in order to help children from war torn countries. The T-shirt was sold for 42.000 USD . 6.Most expensive T-shirt belonged to a Canadian hockey player who was wearing it when he scored the winning goal in the last game from an 8 series against USSR in 1972. He recently was auctioned for a whooping 1.275.000 USD . 7.The world biggest T-shirt was shown on Fenerbahce Istanbul Sport Club stadium. The home T-shirt of the club is 1 ton and 50 kilo heavy with 78 meters long. 8.First T-shirt swap at the end of a football game was recorded at a game between England and France in May 1931. 9.The world record for wearing the most T-shirts at once is now set at 183. 10.Recently a team of scientists developed a T-shirt that is bulletproof, by treating a normal cotton T-shirt with boron, one of the toughest material known to man; scientists claimed that this kind of T-shirts will stop a flying bullet. ~~♡♡♡~~ Hoped you enjoyed this piece of light reading before going to sleep, but before doing so, do remember to help like and share this post with your friends! Comment below if you find any other extra info you would like to share with us. :) - Cheers Darlings!
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:14:49 +0000
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