1.)There is evidence of cotton existing worldwide 6,000 years ago.

2.) The English word T-shirt, first appeared in the Merriam Webster dictionary in 1920.

3.) The first promotional T-shirt was made to advertise the film “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939.

4.) A cotton T-shirt dipped in water can absorb up to twenty-seven times its own weight and is much stronger when wet than when dry.

5.) The proliferation of T-shirts made from recycled cotton now prevents more than five thousand billion tons of textile waste worldwide.

6.) The world’s largest cotton-producing countries (in order) are: 1. China. 2. India. 3. USA. 4. Pakistan. 5. Brazil.

7.) To make a single T-shirt, an average of almost 10 kilometers of yarn is required.