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TIL that the first use of "cleavage" to refer to a woman's breasts was in relation to Jane Russell in the 1943 film The Outlaw when the MPAA took action against the film. Director Howard Hughes designed a prototype for an underwire bra to give Russell "five and one-quarter inches" long cleavage."

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