Wearing Gloves facts
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Princess Diana, on live TV, shook the hand of an AIDS patient without wearing gloves, challenging the belief that AIDS could be passed via contact. The act was seen as a huge moment for those suffering with the disease.
Malaysian Crown Prince Tunku Ismail mocked religious hardliners in Malaysia by wearing Hulk Hands to shake hands, after being told to wear gloves when shaking hands with women.
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Japanese police wear white gloves since the Beatles’ visit in 1966 when the responsible police chief decided to add a layer of propriety between police officers' hands and crowds of mostly young women
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Elvis Presley and his entourage would rent out roller skating rinks to throw $15,000 worth of fireworks at each other while wearing "air force jump-suits plus gloves, helmets, and goggles."
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Tokyo has its own superhero. He’s Mangetsu-Man, a self-made hero who’s taken up the responsibility of keeping the city clean. He wears a “full moon” head, purple bodysuit, oversized UGG boots with matching gloves, and uses a voice dictation app to hide his voice.
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During an experiment, chemist Karen Wetterhahn accidentally spilled two drops of organic mercury on her hand. That small amount of mercury would kill her in less than a year, despite her wearing gloves at the time and taking appropriate measures to clean herself up.
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If a dead body goes undiscovered long enough for skin-slip to start and there's no one to identify the body, forensics can cut the skin around your wrist, slip the skin off, and wear it like a glove in order to get the fingerprints.
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When handling old books and rare manuscripts it’s actually better to just have really clean and dry hands rather than wearing gloves or other protective material.
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According to an autopsy report an Alabama minister who died of “accidental mechanical asphyxia” in his home, was found hogtied, wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, a head mask, and had a dildo in his anus covered with a condom
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Skin slippage allows investigators to remove the entire hand-skin from unidentified bodies, and wear it like a glove to get fingerprints.
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One of the first films ever recorded on Thomas Edison's Kinetograph was a shot of two cats wearing boxing gloves and fighting each other in a boxing ring. It is titled "Prof. Welton's Boxing Cats." Very likely the first cat video ever recorded.
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Cartoon characters are depicted as wearing gloves as it eliminated the complexity of drawing a well defined hand back in the days when they had to manually draw a new drawing per frame for numerous frames.
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The FDA issued a final rule banning powdered medical gloves; Although studies linked them to severe airway inflammation, asthma, granulomas, and peritoneal adhesions they are still heavily used around the world because surgeons consider them more comfortable to put on and wear.
Some players pee on their hands to improve their grip, rather than wear gloves.
When playing the laser harp the musician must wear protective gear (gloves and glasses) as lasers can cause eye damage and skin damage.
Daniel Craig almost cost the producers of Skyfall millions of dollars because he wanted to wear a pair of gloves in a scene.
Mickey Mouse wears gloves because his design is based on blackface performers in minstrel shows. - source
A somewhat rare, often musician-oriented condition called 'Focal Dystonia' which affects finger coordination due to involuntary movement can be partially controlled (in some cases) by simply wearing a glove.
Workers do not wear gloves when dismantling electronic devices and are exposed to metals and toxins such as chromium and lead.
In order to avoid contracting hantavirus it is important to safely remove mice and their droppings and nests from the home. It's important to wear rubber gloves and use a disinfectant. It's also important to avoid vacuuming or sweeping as this will stir up particles and make it possible to breathe them into the lungs.
Duffel bags were first made in Duffel, Belgium, from duffel cloth. The same heavy woollen cloth is used to made Duffel or Duffle coats, the toggle type fastening of which were designed to be used while wearing heavy gloves in cold weather at sea.
Police in Japan still wear white gloves after The Beatles toured there in 1966 and the authorities were worried about holding crowds of screaming girls back with bare hands.
As a part of initiation for the Satare-Mare Tribe, a boy as young as 12 must wear gloves woven from bullet ants with their stingers facing inwards, up to a total of 20 times
