Ten Interesting Things You Didn't Know About The T-Shirt.

2. 91% of Americans admit to having a "favorite T-shirt." 34% of those say white is the color of their favorite T-shirt, with almost twice as many votes received as the second most popular color, blue.

3. The origin of the name "T-Shirt" is unclear. Many consider the shape of the shirt as a "T", while it could also refer to the army's use of these pieces as "training shirts". It is also a possibility that the name "tee" comes from the word amputee, an allusion to the arm's shortened length.

4. In December of 2007, Aaron Waltke, 22, a recent graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington set the Guinness Book World Record for most T-shirts worn by a man at one time: 160. Check out the video of the event.

5. Famed football coach Howard Jones asked the underwear company "Jockey" in 1932 to develop a sweat absorbing shirt for the USC Trojans football team, which they propose was the "modern T-Shirt."

6. The Smithsonian museum has one of the oldest printed T-shirts on record in its collection: a campaign shirt for New York Gov. Thomas Dewey's 1948 presidential campaign -- "Dew it with Dewey," which was followed in 1952 by "I Like Ike" T-shirts in support of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

7. As a sponsor of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Hanes produced a one-of-a-kind series of Hanes Beefy T-shirts representing the 500 days leading up to the Opening Ceremonies. T-shirt #1 was auctioned for $32,500, which made it the most expensive T-shirt ever, and went toward the purchase of Olympic Game tickets for underprivileged children.

8. Until the 1950’s, T-shirts were still considered underwear, until John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and James Dean shocked Americans by wearing their “underwear” on T.V.

9. New technology features flexible arrays of colored LEDs that are integrated directly into the fabric of T-shirts.

10. 62% of Americans claim to own more than 10 T-shirts. That alone is 1.5 billion T-shirts, which would circle the globe 34 times.