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Did the Makers of Barbie Really Used to Sell a Doll Whose Breasts Grew When Her Arm Rotated?

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Woman with the “Perfect Butt” https://youtu.be/oNiYmnJ_kVQ?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Are Some People Really Born With Tails? https://youtu.be/dQMHd6IYQak?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: Yes, you read that correctly. It was 1975 and the doll was called “Growing Up Skipper”. When you rotated her arm, she grew an inch taller and her small breasts grew out of her plastic chest. She could return to her pre-pubescent self simply by rotating the arm back the way it was. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/the-makers-of-barbie-used-to-sell-a-doll-whose-breasts-grew-when-her-arm-rotated/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipper_(Barbie) http://www.almostzara.com/2010/08/growing-up-skipper-doll-matures-just-like-you-do/ http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions/a/The-History-Of-Barbie-Dolls.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_(doll) http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2737p1.html?cr=00&pl=edit-00 http://www.shutterstock.com/?cr=00&pl=edit-00

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  • Originally Aired October 17, 2016
  • Runtime 5 minutes
  • Production Code FO7BGxD2pBc
  • Created September 18, 2020 by
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  • Modified September 18, 2020 by
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