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April 26, 2019

Can’t Unsee: Everyone Is Talking About This Human Milk Duct Picture

Power is knowledge, although some things should quite clearly be left unseen. Enter the human milk duct system.

Firstly, I’m sorry.

What you’re about to see can’t be unseen.

Milk ducts. Women have them. They’re the milk-making glands that help you to feed your baby.

That was just about everything I needed to know about them.

Then Twitter user @lemonadead started asking questions, digging up pictures and posting them on social media.

Here’s the BBC:

The milk-making glands are divided into segments and the narrow tubes – or ducts – carry the milk from each segment to the nipple.

But for some that’s apparently not common knowledge – which is why many people online seemed to find the picture hard to swallow.

The offending Twitter post which has since gone viral:

Let’s take a closer look:

I feel like I was never meant to see this. Twitter agrees.

Trust me, they don’t get better the longer you look at them.

[source:bbc]