A 2008 survey revealed that 9% of men in America have underwear that is at least 10 years old. Fifteen percent own underwear that is between 5-9 years old.

The average American woman owns approximately 21 pairs of underwear. Approximately 10% of women own over 35 pairs.

Ten-year-old Jack Singer of Warwick, New York, wore 215 pairs of underwear simultaneously on June 13, 2010. He broke the previous record of 200 pairs.

Sexual researchers note that a woman who chooses to wear white cotton panties tends to be a low maintenance and a no-frills type of a woman. Researchers note that this is akin to letting a man see her without makeup.

The country with the most underwear models working for Victoria’s Secret is Brazil.

While underwear may or may not be worn under kilts, tradition holds that a “true Scotsman” would wear nothing underneath.

The U.K. typically sells the highest number of the largest bra cup sizes. Japan usually sells the most of the smallest sizes.

In Italy, women celebrate New Years by wearing red underwear because it is considered lucky.

After police in Colfax, Washington, arrested Greg Flaherty for hanging around an apartment laundry room, they discovered he had stolen over 1,613 pairs of women’s underwear. Reports do not indicate whether they were stolen before or after they were washed.

In the 19th century, women typically wore heavy petticoats to keep the cold breezes from blowing up their skirts because they usually didn’t wear any underwear underneath.

In 2005, a member of Virginia’s House of Delegates, Algi T. Howell, proposed a $50 fine for wearing pants that showed one’s underwear. The bill did not pass.

During the Victorian age, women wore knickers, which left the entire crotch area open and exposed because it was believed that an open crotch was more hygienic.

Ten percent of American women have confessed to occasionally having gone “commando” to avoid visible panty lines.

So much whalebone was used to stiffen corsets, hoop skirts, and other types of underwear, that the baleen whale was almost driven to extinction.

China has the fastest growing underwear market on earth.

During the 1950s, it was popular for college boys to storm the girls’ dorm and steal their underwear and then publicly display them. The popular term for these outings was “panty raids.”

Until the mid-1800s, it was considered improper for a woman to wear anything in between her legs. This is why women rode sidesaddle and why pants were considered a male-only garment.

The Russians are experimenting with bacteria that will eat the worn underwear of astronauts on long space missions.

In the 1990s, hip-hop artists made it fashionable for men to wear their pants below their waists and showing their boxers or briefs. This style, called “sagging,” is said to have actually originated in prison when jail inmates had their belts removed because they might be used as a possible weapon. Other historians believe this style originated as a sign of availability among homosexuals.