15 things you never knew about boobs
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15 facts you never knew about boobs
There is an American NGO, Gotopless.org, that fights for the right for women to be topless in public places.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Men have mammary glands and the capacity to produce milk – but it’s usually as a result of hormonal treatments.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Legend says the coupe glass was moulded on Marie Antoinette’s breast. It predates her by a century, though.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Smokers’ breasts tend to sag as chemicals in cigarettes destroy the skin’s elastin.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Sleeping face down will not make boobs smaller, but it will change their shape over time. Instead, sleep on your side with a pillow under you.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
British women have Europe’s biggest boobs with more than half of us wearing a D cup or above.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
In 2000, Gisele Bundchen wore the world’s most expensive bra for Victoria’s Secret. With 1,300 gems, it was worth $15 million (£9.7million).
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Bra-like garments existed in 2,500BC, when Minoan women in Crete wore devices that hauled their bare boobs out of their clothes.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Breast size doesn’t determine cleavage. Position on torso is more important. If your body narrows under your shoulders, you’ll have a better ‘plunge’.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
On 19 June, 1964, 20-year-old Carol Doda was the first woman to dance topless for money at the Condor Club in San Francisco
15 facts you never knew about boobs
The first topless Page 3 girl in The Sun newspaper was 20-year-old Stephanie Rahn on 17 November, 1970.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Cleopatra, Egypt’s last Pharaoh, killed herself by clasping a poisonous asp to her breast.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
The term brassiere first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1933.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
According to Greek myth, the Milky Way was formed when the god Zeus tricked his wife Hera into breastfeeding his half-human son Heracles. When Hera realised the infant wasn’t hers, she pushed him away and the drops of spilled milk became the Milky Way galaxy.
15 facts you never knew about boobs
Statistically speaking, your left breast is probably bigger than the right