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I have never understood that. (lemmy.world)

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[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe he didn't own any other clothes and after a certain time he had to keep up appearances. I'm picturing him going to extreme lengths to get realistic prosthetic finger replacements as they suffered from frost bite... because everyone thought it was incredible that he was fine in shorts.

[–] pillars_in_the_trees@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They've done studies on Win Hof and some people at least are just physiologically resistant to the cold.