On any given laundry day, there’s at least a 70% chance that an odd number of socks will make it back to my drawer. My dryer gobbles these things up—especially the tiny ones—with the ...

It's a common problem to have an odd number of socks. But is it true that the washing machine has an insatiable hunger for socks and swallows them up? The truth is that it can - in rare cases.