15 things 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.

Men have mammary glands and the capacity to produce milk – but it’s usually as a result of hormonal treatments.

Legend says the coupe glass was moulded on Marie Antoinette’s breast. It predates her by a century, though.

Smokers’ breasts tend to sag as chemicals in cigarettes destroy the skin’s elastin.

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.

British women have Europe’s biggest boobs with more than half of us wearing a D cup or above.

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).

Bra-like garments existed in 2,500BC, when Minoan women in Crete wore devices that hauled their bare boobs out of their clothes.

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’.

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

The first topless Page 3 girl in The Sun newspaper was 20-year-old Stephanie Rahn on 17 November, 1970.

Cleopatra, Egypt’s last Pharaoh, killed herself by clasping a poisonous asp to her breast.

The term brassiere first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1933.

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.

Statistically speaking, your left breast is probably bigger than the right