{"id":9001,"date":"2012-02-14T15:47:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=9001"},"modified":"2012-02-14T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:47:38","slug":"the-u-s-army-has-developed-a-near-silent-version-of-velcro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/the-u-s-army-has-developed-a-near-silent-version-of-velcro\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Army Has Developed a Near Silent Version of Velcro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/silent-velcro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9002\" title=\"silent-velcro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/silent-velcro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/silent-velcro.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/silent-velcro-340x299.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. army developed and uses a near silent version of Velcro on their soldier&#8217;s uniforms.\u00a0 The version they use reduces the ripping noise by about 95% over traditional Velcro.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you won\u2019t see such Velcro for sale in the store anytime soon as the method of manufacturing this silent Velcro is currently classified by the military.\u00a0 *scumbag military: uses taxpayer dollars to develop awesome practical product that would pose no danger if publicly released, refuses to share it with taxpayers.*<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Velcro Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/velcro-was-modeled-after-burrs-of-the-burdock-plant-that-stuck-to-velcros-inventors-pants-after-a-hunting-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. army developed and uses a near silent version of Velcro on their soldier&#8217;s uniforms.\u00a0 The version they use reduces the ripping noise by about 95% over traditional Velcro.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you won\u2019t see such Velcro for sale in the store anytime soon as the method of manufacturing this silent Velcro is currently classified by the military.\u00a0 *scumbag military: uses [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2173,938],"class_list":["post-9001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-silent-velcro","tag-velcro-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9004,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions\/9004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}