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ashling

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Fri Jan 31, 2014, 12:58 PM Jan 2014

Factoid of the day - Chinese store sells "a Mount Everest of Bras"

https://globalconnections.hsbc.com/us/en/articles/mount-everest-bras?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=click&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=global+gc+2013

But far and away the highest volume items were bras and knickers (hopeful singletons wanting to look their best, perhaps). In one of the most pointless factoids of the day, Alibaba calculated that the 1.6 million bras bought by midday on Monday would pile up three times higher than Mount Everest. And that if the 2 million pairs of knickers were laid out, the line would stretch from Beijing to Ulan Bator and back again.


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Factoid of the day - Chinese store sells "a Mount Everest of Bras" (Original Post) ashling Jan 2014 OP
I just want one that fits. Brigid Jan 2014 #1
It's that one there -- third from the bottom of the stack struggle4progress Jan 2014 #2
And it's not the color you want. kcass1954 Jan 2014 #3
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