Why those indentations above your butt are named after Venus

Those two small indentations some people have on their lower back, just above the buttocks, have a proper anatomical name: the dimples of Venus, after the Roman goddess of beauty. In Latin, they're called fossae lumbales laterales, or "lateral lumbar indentations." — Read the rest

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