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| The earliest known reference to jeans, meaning close-fitting trousers, in English was in 1842 |
September 18 is Jeans for Genes day, encouraging people to wear jeans to work to raise money for genetics research.
1. The earliest known reference to jeans, meaning close-fitting trousers, in English was in 1842.
2. The word gene, for a unit of heredity, arrived in 1909, so jeans were here for 67 years before genes.
3. Jeans took their name from the word geane or jene or jean, which was used for a twilled cotton cloth worn by sailors in the Italian city of Genoa.
4. The first independent organism to have its genome sequenced was a bacterium in 1995.
5. The most costly jeans are a diamond-studded pair from Secret Circus at $1.3million (£850,000).
6. In 1997, some 500 tons of Toblerone chocolate bars were recalled from shops in Switzerland for containing genetically modified soybeans...
7. ...days later, however, the Swiss government allowed the import of GM soybeans and the Toblerone went back on the shelves.
8. In 1900, Jean was the 172nd most popular name given to a girl baby in England and Wales. In 2014, it was not even in then top 1,000.
9. “Jeans represent democracy in fashion.”(Georgio Armani).
10. We share about 96 per cent of our genes with chimpanzees and bonobos.
* For details see jeansforgenesday.org
2. The word gene, for a unit of heredity, arrived in 1909, so jeans were here for 67 years before genes.
3. Jeans took their name from the word geane or jene or jean, which was used for a twilled cotton cloth worn by sailors in the Italian city of Genoa.
4. The first independent organism to have its genome sequenced was a bacterium in 1995.
5. The most costly jeans are a diamond-studded pair from Secret Circus at $1.3million (£850,000).
6. In 1997, some 500 tons of Toblerone chocolate bars were recalled from shops in Switzerland for containing genetically modified soybeans...
7. ...days later, however, the Swiss government allowed the import of GM soybeans and the Toblerone went back on the shelves.
8. In 1900, Jean was the 172nd most popular name given to a girl baby in England and Wales. In 2014, it was not even in then top 1,000.
9. “Jeans represent democracy in fashion.”(Georgio Armani).
10. We share about 96 per cent of our genes with chimpanzees and bonobos.
* For details see jeansforgenesday.org
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