1. There are over one hundred words used to refer to breasts in the English language! This includes the common: Boobs, The Girls, Melons, Bosoms, and Bangers to the not so common: Milk Monsters, Puppies, Shoulder Boulders.
2. Our breasts are not symmetrical: A study published by the International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology found the right breasts were on average found to be larger than left breast. However, some scientists will argue the left one is bigger because that is where the heart is located.  A slight difference in size — up to 20 percent — between the right and left breast is normal
3. The breast grows for two to three years following a girl’s first period.
4.  The average U.S. woman wears a size 40 D bra. This equates to about 1.5 lbs per breast.
5. Breast cancer can happen to anyone – men and women.
6. Famous women who have had breast cancer include: Gloria Steinem, Dawn Upshaw, Betty Ford, Judy Blume, Sheryl Crow, Kylie Monogue, Olivia Newton-John, Melissa Etheridge, Hoda Kotb, Robin Roberts, Joan Lunden, Giuliana Rancic, Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming, Carly Fiorina, Brigitte Bardot, Suzanne Somers, Kathy Bates, Ann Jillian, Kate Jackson, and Dihann Carroll.
7. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that annual mammograms be done starting at age 40.
8. The first radical mastectomy was performed in the late 1800s by William S. Halsted, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins.
9. Susan G. Komen was a young woman from Peoria, Ill., who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, at the age of 33. Komen died from the disease three years later. Her younger sister, Nancy Goodman Brinker  promised her sister that she would do everything she could to end breast cancer. The result was the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, started in 1982.
10. In 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act, which ensures that a woman’s health plan that covers mastectomy surgery must cover all stages of reconstruction to both the breast with cancer and the breast without cancer, if desired.
11. Both men (1 in 18) and women (1 in 50) can have polythelia — one or more extra nipples.
12. The breastfeeding rate is on the rise in the U.S., increasing by an average of 2 percentage points per year, according to the latest CDC statistics.
13. Breast augmentation with implants — filled either with silicone or saline — is still the most popular plastic surgery procedure for women.
14. When actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie announced that she had undergone prophylactic mastectomies to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer, due to being BRCA-positive led to double the number of women getting tested for this in the following 6 months.
15. There’s a champagne glass in London that’s shaped after Kate Moss’ breast.
16. Men have nipples and breasts because all fetuses are female at first.
17. The largest bra size is an L, and the smallest is a AAA.
18. There are more than 4 million new bras produced every day.
19. There are eight different types of nipples.
20. Ida Rosenthal and her husband William, founders of Maidenform, created the bra with its current sizing standards in the 1920s.
21. About 85 percent of women are wearing the wrong bra size, according to Intimacy data.
22. 70% are not happy with their breasts, according to research published in the International Journal of Sexual Health.
23. A woman’s breasts are most symmetrical between days 14 and 16 of her monthly cycle, due to hormones released during ovulation

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