26-30 Twin Facts
26. 1 in 10,000 people has situs inversus, where the organs in their body are mirrored. There also exist “mirrored twins”; identical twins, one normal and the other with situs inversus. – Source
27. There was a pair of twins separated at birth in England. They later ended up marrying each other. – Source
28. When identical twin, basketball players Brook and Robin Lopez were both playing for NY-based teams, they considered living together. They then decided against it because their cats didn’t get along. – Source
29. A Russian woman in the 1700’s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man. – Source
30. Someone named their twins Winner and Loser. Winner went on to become a criminal, and Loser became a detective. – Source
31-35 Twin Facts
31. A mother’s body will adjust to regulate the temperature of a baby held on her chest. If she’s holding twins, each breast will independently adjust the temperature. – Source
32. A 36-year-old Indian man was hospitalized in 1999 with what he thought was stomach cancer but turned out to be the decomposed fetal remains of his twin brother. – Source
33. There are identical twins where only one has Down syndrome. – Source
34. June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins who only spoke to each other. They had an agreement that if one died, the other must start a normal life. They began to believe that it was necessary for one twin to die. After Jennifer’s eventual death, June is quoted as saying, “I’m free at last.” – Source
35. Parents of twins with the fatal Niemann-Pick disease developed a new treatment by reading online papers and experimenting with various methods of drug delivery. – Source
36-38 Twin Facts
36. The DNA testing sequence able to identify genetic differences in identical twins isn’t admissible in the U.S. court of law. – Source
37. Two identical twins from Japan released a rap album when they turned 100 years old in 1992. – Source
38. There lived twin brothers who stood over 7’2″ tall, in the 18th century. – Source
Nº 24 is a myth. The city in question is Cândido Godoi, an alleged place where Mengele escaped after WWII. In a National Geographic documentary, the jewish nazi hunter following Mengele was intervewed, and he stated that before having is assignment changed, he was close to locating him in São Paulo shortly before is alleged stay in Cândido Godoi. The trip in that amount of time in the 60’s would have been impossible. The family that harbored Mengele in Brasil was also contacted. Without having their identity revealed, they stated that Mengele was never in Cândido Godoi. Mengele died by drowning in a beach near São Paulo, everything pointing to he never having found out the secrets behind how twins are formed. The reason behind Cândido Godoi’s large number of twins? A form of natural selection. The city simply was populated by a larger number of people susceptible to having twins and with time, the genes responsible simply became more common.