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00:00 After washing the clothes and drying them,
00:03 we put together shirts, pants and socks,
00:07 we sort them out and, at the end, surprise!
00:10 One is missing!
00:11 This domestic mystery is not an isolated problem.
00:14 According to an English investigation,
00:16 our British neighbours lose about 15 socks a year,
00:19 which is 1264 in average, in a lifetime.
00:23 But where do these damn socks go?
00:25 A German report may have managed to solve the riddle.
00:29 The investigators had the simple idea
00:31 of filming a machine in action.
00:34 We see a sock escape suddenly from the drum
00:37 during the washing cycle,
00:38 slip against the seal around it
00:41 and get lost between the tank and the drum.
00:43 The mystery of the orphan socks
00:45 would thus be summed up as a banal watertight problem.
00:49 (upbeat music)