Sock horror! Scientists finally develop a formula to solve the mystery of why clothes go missing in the wash. ... The research revealed Britons lose an average of 1.3 socks each month ...

It was seven inches long, two inches wide, pink, stripy and the English family who discovered it hiding under a bed thought it could be a dangerous lizard.

In 2016 Samsung reported on why socks go missing. Its survey of 2,000 British adults found that a person loses an average of 1.3 socks per month in the washing cycle, equalling – in Samsung's ...