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TIL the modern bra was invented in 1914 by 19-year-old Mary Phelps Jacob, who stitched it from handkerchiefs and ribbon as an alternative to corsets. She sold her patent a year later to Warner Brothers Corset Company for $1,500. They went on to make more than $15 million from it.

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