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Before we record. Leila always plays like a little web game. Yeah, I do. She has got this site that she goes to so website,
just look up games online. So this is 2048. Game online.com. Right. And we're not we don't
know if there's bad stuff on the site. So yeah. So discretion is we
use a browser that blocks stuff like that, right? So let's see, we're not saying it. Because we don't want to give a free ad nollie. Well,
we don't get paid ads either. So really, we can just talk about whatever we want, whether we like it or not. I have like four, four different browsers on this computer. Oh, my God. I was trying them all out. And I just never went and deleted the ones that I don't use and actually use them for different things like Google Chrome is pretty much
exclusively YouTube. I've got no show notes for the show. When I'm looking for because it has a reading mode, which strips all of the ads and pictures and everything out of the out of the website. So you've got a nice clean reading pane that you can I can read all of our FX over off of Yeah, that's so cool. It's really neat. And then Firefox is my main one. That's the one I use for most stuff. Only Firefox and brave. I kind
of like I'm bouncing back from tourists. I'm trying to figure out which one I
use for everything I don't. I'm brave on the phone isn't as good. Right? My opinion, but only computer is awesome.
I've been using brave for a while but I kind of want to support Firefox simply because it's pretty much the only one Firefox. It's pretty much the only one that's not chrome based now.
I don't know I guess opera.
I haven't tried opera. But I want to try opera opera is apple. Oh, is it? Yeah. So I kind of wanted to get away from Google and Apple. Yeah. They wanted to try it in order to go something more free and open source. I mean, yeah. So I know. It's mine, and Thunderbird, which is the other Mozilla project, which is an email. I use that for like, a week. It does. Oh, they revamped it recently. It's fantastic now, it's amazing. Yeah.
But don't retry. Well, that's about boring browsers.
I dyed my hair again. Yes. And it looks way better than it did. Oh, yeah. It looks like an Auburn. Right. Like an Auburn dark red. Yeah, type color. But it's all one color. Yeah, it's I mean, it's got little highlights, and lowlights. But it's
an parts that we didn't fully cover. So it's still kind of brown. Brown. Blue. wasn't
the best I wasn't, we should have gotten to we should have gotten two bottles. That's what we should have done. But look around a lot of hair. I like the fact that it's not like an unnatural color. Like there are people with that color hair. You know, it's not like blue or green. That's a different spider. complemental. Oh,
okay, he's got it. He's getting up. Oh, oh. There we go. I didn't even see it. A
very tiny spider. It was coming straight down from my head. So I dyed
it just in time for the last week of school. Yep. And it's like, oh, look, I'm
so cool. That's our good news for this week.
Oh, yeah. That is my good news for this week. Leila
is now officially a redhead, a high schooler. Oh. That's so what's our episode about this week? Leila?
I'm twins. When I think my squeaky chair there we go. So identical twins do not have identical fingerprints. Why
not? But they are identical. Oh, no.
Oh, I was gonna say Oh, no. And then sneeze went away. As soon as I said that, dang it.
So I don't know why I got this idea. Oh, either.
I was like, he was like, what are you gonna do for this week? I was like, Oh,
I know how I got bored. Because sometimes, like, I just got home. We have had so many episodes. I'm always looking for something new. And I will type into Google like, fun fact about and then just leave it blank and just enter. And when I say Google, I mean brave search. And just let it like and then I click one of the things and I'll give me a random fact within like, I take that subject, and we'll pick out a topic from Yeah, I assume. All right. So I saw a fun fact about identical
twins is blah, blah, blah. And I was like, oh, yeah, let's do twins, because there's lots of neat stuff about twins. Lots of twins. And there's so much more about twins that I didn't know.
So it was your favorite twin? Probably.
Jim and Jim. The twins with that same name. Have you ever heard their story?
And no, I think we're about to talk about it, though. We
are. That's my main thing. Do you want to just do a quick little quick little couple of fun facts before I go into the twins? Alright, so they were separated at birth. They were born in 1940. And they were adopted by two separate families, each one taking the surname of the family that were adopted by Jim Lewis and Jim Springer. Both families called their new sons James or Jim for short. James, it can be Jim, Jimmy, or James or Jimmy James. It's what we used to call our
buddy. Anyway, they grew up nearly 40 miles from each other in Minnesota, Jim Lewis was aware that he had been separated from a twin brother, but Jim Springer's mother had told him his twin had died at birth. After they reunited at the age of 39. The similarities that they found in their lives were astonishing. This is from mirror.co.uk just I'm reading it
and having commentary. So I'd call that stealing content but the two men married wives, and the wives had the first same, the same first name and had similar interests and hobbies. Or this is the Yeah, they did similar jobs, and they each had a dog with the same name. As for instance, Springer and Luis both had a brother Larry, and a dog called toy. As students they both enjoyed mathematics and woodwork, but had a strong
dislike for spelling. Both of the twins first wives names were Linda, and when they divorced them, they both married a second wife called Betty. Each man had a son to whom they gave the name James Allen. Jim Lewis was a chain smoker suffered from migraines and Joe drove a Chevrolet. He worked as a security guard. Jim Springer was a chain smoker suffered from migraines and drove a Chevrolet. And he worked as a deputy
sheriff. Wow. Their paths cross for the first time in 1979, after Jim Lewis discovered the contact details for his identical twin. The twins were participants in a study by Dr. Thomas brookshaw Bouchard at the University of Minnesota. They were asked to complete tests on their personality, medical history and brainwaves, and their scores were remarkably remarkably similar on all three tests.
Do I have any secret siblings?
Not that we not that we're aware of? And I was there when you were born? So I feel like I would have noticed. You know, a second baby
is when you're blinking
an eye blink. Boom, and just out of the room.
Before you blink, right.
Okay, so they were asked to draw a picture. And they drew the exact same thing said Dr. Bouchard. He said he was left flabbergasted by the twins results. So I heard I heard this years and years and years ago, it's probably on some TV show in the 90s. You know, like, Oh, amazing, wonderful mystery. And, you know, some of the stuff can be checked on, like the wives names and things like that, but some of the stuff you're like, how much? How much of it was made up for a story or to get
famous? Or you know, yeah, but you know, it's an interesting fun story. Regardless. Yeah. And that link will be in the show notes as all links are
twins are such a weird concept to me. You're telling me two people were living at home? Yep. You're telling me a shrimp fried rice.
Shrimp fried rice. Yes. That reminds me on a movie Little Rascals which was a reboot remake of an old TV show back in like the black no way before me way before me. There's a they're having like a carnival or something trying to raise money if I recall correctly. And they have like a freak show. And they're like come see the forefoot man eating chicken and it's a one of the kids dressed up as you know, he's four foot tall and he's eating chicken. forefoot man eating chicken, but
they weren't lying. You know, little deceitful. But you were just saying that you can't believe that. There's two people inside that one. Yeah,
I got room and they got room in the womb. And And
2011 Researchers at Humberto Castillo Castillo of University of Padova in Italy, studied 3d videos of twins in the mother's womb. At 14 weeks of gestation, twins can be seen reaching for each other by 18 weeks they touched each other more often than they touch their own bodies. The researcher said that kinematic analysis of the recordings revealed that the twins made distinctive gestures towards each other. And whereas gentle with the other twins, delicate high area, as they were
when they touched their own. That's weird, right? And that was on as on HuffPost. The Huff Post link and it actually has like a little video on the site of, of like the womb, inside the womb, the two babies, like moving their hands and towards each other and stuff like that. It's really neat. Neat stuff. Yeah, so does Do you have any more information about the non identical fingerprints?
Wait? I think I do. Yeah. Hold on. I gotta like, skim it real quick. So I can give you a summary. Right? I fingerprints are not solely based on Well, yeah, based on DNA, right. And usually, identical twins have the same DNA. And I say usually, because I got a point on that later. But fingerprints are not solely based on DNA. They're just based on how your skin skins. Yep.
By your skin. It can actually it's affected by how the fluid in the womb moves around your fingers as they're developing. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So it doesn't matter what you do. I mean, your DNA. I don't know how much it has to do with it. But any one of
the museums we went to in Tennessee. They got us.
They got us. They got us. Alcatraz east.
Yeah, I'm actually wearing the t shirt from it right now. Yeah, you're right. They had a machine, and you scanned your thumbprint on it. And it would print out a little sheet for you with your thumbprint. And like, quote unquote, what you did. Yeah,
like I was get arrested. I was a cat burglar.
I got a DUI, right.
It was just like a fun little criminal record. You know, when you put your name on mine, like in my room somewhere? Mine's on my computer desk in the house. Yeah. Mom says I'm afraid I think yeah, yeah, this was a fun little souvenir. It was free. It was a piece of veneer federal machine. That was real neat. Okay, so Massachusetts, has the most twin births of any state in America. For 4.5%?
How many percent is in the Massachusetts? No,
like, for every 100 births.
How many births are in the Massachusetts? How many people are?
If we're going by percentages, it's irrelevant? Well. It has the most per capita birth. Well, yeah, for per capita is the thing there.
Because you can't just say, yeah, 10 twins were born in Massachusetts. When there's, like 500 people in Massachusetts and like 10 people in every other state.
That's how they really kitchen. That's how they're really good. They'll be like, they'll be like, double check. Yeah, it doubled or tripled,
was really just two and it's going for Yeah.
Well out of a million. Yeah. It's still exceedingly rare. But no, it's per capita. So for every 100 live births, there's 4.5 4.5 incidents of twins or reCAPTCHA.
First thing that pops in my head when someone says capita, per
capita per reCAPTCHA. Yeah, find the stop sign. Find the twins. We need you to really Hurry up on finding that stop sign. We're not going to tell you why. But it has to do with our self driving cars.
Quick has to do with training is AI quick.
Oh my gosh. That's another way to get you. It's all about getting it these days. Connecticut and New Jersey follow up with a to 2.5 or two 4.2 twins for every 100 births.
Researchers hypothesize that the multiple births occur in affluent towns outside of Boston because they have a higher concentration of wealthy women who have pursued careers these women are more likely to attempt to have children at a later age and seek reproductive assistance, which means that they're going to get fertility medicines, which makes it when when you take fertility medicine, it makes you more likely to have twins, triplets, etc.
So some identical twins are actually mirror images of each other. I know that didn't, okay would never be identical twins heard of that one?
I know personally, I know, like two or three sets of identical twins and I know one set of triplets. Yeah, there's only Yeah. Yeah, I worked with one on
my nose had triplets. That's still not discovered yet. What I haven't asked. They look the same. They had the same last name. So I'm assuming Oh,
yeah. We got not fully sure we got Leila's yearbook in and we were just skimming through and she's like wait a minute, are they trip they're the same last name and they look so similar. If
I don't really know if I want to ask no
even don't worry about it. Yeah, I think that they will come. They look similar enough to me and they do have the last name and they're in the same grade. Yeah, so I feel like there
could not be you know,
yeah I didn't know about the mirror image identical twins until I was reading the article on HuffPost and
they occasionally have reversed Oregon's which is crazy to me. Oh, yeah.
It's weird when somebody has reversed Oregon's Yeah,
I know a couple. Twins in real life. Just not identical twins. What do you call those?
Fraternal fraternal fraternal
frat fraternity?
Yes, like fraternity brotherhood. Can you brothers Oh my god.
Oh my god, you
know Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker.
All right, I've never watched from don't attack me for that, by the way. Okay. I've never watched Star Wars. I've never watched Harry Potter. That might be a lie. I've never watched Star Trek.
Okay, so let me give you the rundown. Okay, I'm not gonna go through the stories or anything like that. But I'm gonna say Star Wars is the movies are hit or miss. Some of them are good. Some of them are not good. Star Wars. I never really even cared too much about the story of Star Wars. Or the, the universe I never delved into, like the extended universe and all the world building. But I just, I really liked all the spaceships and monsters and weapons. So that's what I
watched Star Wars for was the action sequences. Like all this stuff about like, trade routes and, and Senate hearings and stuff I've never really cared about. I was like, Come on, get to the lightsaber fight. That's the cool part. So yeah, okay, so that's Star Wars. And then Star Trek. Ah, different series different movies. Same thing, either love them or hate them. Next Generation in my opinion was the best but that was also the one that was on when I was like a teenager. So
William Shatner in it. Know
what Star Trek? Star Trek The Original Series as William Shatner? Yeah. Next Generation was on what I was talking about. It's got John Luke Picard, which is played by Patrick Stewart. The bald guy, old bald guy. He's really funny. And then it's got Jordy, which is the guy from Reading Rainbow. Yeah. I can't remember his day right now. If you say Patrick Stewart into the internet, you'll you'll you'll see him you'll be like, Oh, I know that guy. Oh, that dude. Right? Yeah. And then Harry
Potter. You can talk to your mom. Yeah,
I read the book, finally. So sound like a month ago. Wasn't that great? Well, I should have read it earlier. It's what I meant. It was a good good, good book. Good book.
I've never read it. I've watched the movies. The movies are decent. I feel like a lot was left out left out of the movies even without having read the book to know what the things are. I feel like stuff was left out. But they're fun, fun movies. Mothers of twins may live longer, or they may not. A study published in the journal. The journal Proceedings of the Royal Society focused on the population of women in the 1800s, Utah and found that the women who gave birth to twins
were very strong and healthy to begin with. Which means that they're more fertile. So you might
live long or you might not write Vsauce music that's the thing. Vsauce music Yeah.
It's probably copyrighted.
I don't think it is. come
after us. Twins. Go ahead.
I've had this one in the back. Oh, you were gonna do that one. Yeah. Okay, so you know, like that one? Twin. What one twin, though. Oh, Mary Kate. And Ashley. Yeah. The one Yeah.
You know, my mom yeah. From Full House. The
original house from Wanda vision. Who was that way?
No, that's their sister. She She is there other sister? That's not a twin. Yeah, Elizabeth Olsen is Elizabeth sister. Yeah, there's Mary Kate and Ashley, which are the twins that were on full house. And then there's Elizabeth Olsen. Who is the one that is in the Marvel movies. Oh, all right. You know, Marvel Heroes, kind of like me. Play an agent Sanderson on the Daredevil series of Marvel move to Android and an iPhone app. It's a fitness app.
It's not that No, it's not
that I'm just gonna think it's cool that I wasn't a Marvel project.
So they're not identical. Medicaid nationals, not identical twins. They're fraternal.
The opposite. The genes run strong in that family. Look at Elizabeth. She looks just like that. So they just don't know you can tell them apart. If you look at them. Always, we've always been able to when they were a kid, it was like, the outfit and the hair and everything made them look the same. And that's how they played the same character, you know?
Which I did not know that until I learned it. And I knew it. I didn't know that until I knew it.
So, I was just talking about how the mothers of twins may live longer. It's also more statistically What do you do? Oh my gosh.
Factor nate.com On number 20. And there's this picture of these two identical twins, I'm assuming with two identical dogs, and it's scary.
They're like, good looking guys wearing the black shirts. My arms are so on, you know, muscles. Yeah. And holding a couple of cute puppies. It's like whoa, anyway. So I'm talking about the mothers may live longer and tall women are more likely to have twins also. So I feel like it's a fertility thing. So like, the, the fertility of the mothers means that they're more healthy and healthier people live longer. So and then like being tall I don't know there's I feel like there's
just some genetic factors to being healthy and twins. You know, that out? It's just me. Just saying, What are you just randomly scrolling
through Instagram trying to find some
women who eat a lot of dairy are more prone to conceiving twins. Oh, it's published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine found that women who eat more dairy products may increase their chances of conceiving twins. tested this comparing twin rates from vegan mothers and non vegan mothers. Those who consume dairy were five times more likely to
rant. Oh,
wait, hold on. Hold on. Where's?
Don't know. It's over here. Start clicking crap. You don't really gets my goat. Right? No, cool. Well, what did you do? Oh, no.
Okay. That's censoring, is it? That's fact facts. Yeah, you're right. No, no. No, I don't want to be a robot. Hey, oh, my gosh. That's must be on the first page. Yeah.
That's okay. It's
ducking.
There we go. Leila rent. will cut it will cut. Yeah, well, totally. Normally gets my goat.
What really gets your goat Leila?
Parents have identical twins. Wait, yeah, I've seen identical twins before. In the wild.
Out in the wild. Yeah, but they were like two now. If anybody is a parent of an identical twins out there, Leila's opinions are her own. They're my own. She can be reached your best life mail at FunFactFriday.com. Yeah, please email me, everybody. I would love everybody. Live your life the way you want to live your life. Raise your kids the way you raise your kids. I heard this rant before a little
show coming out who knows where. And I am not a fan of people who dress up their identical twins as the same person. Because oh my gosh, it really gets my goat. We were somewhere getting something to eat one time. And this mom and dad walk in with their two kids. And I look over and it's a copy paste. same hairstyle, same haircut, same outfit, same shoes, same socks, everything.
You have ugly, pleasant, equally
pleasant people. They seem very sweet to be around. And I'm not commenting on anything except for the way that she dressed and presented her children. Now I'm assuming it's the mother's fault, but that's not that's pretty. That's pretty
I'm assuming it's the mother's fault.
I'm assuming it's the mother's fault. But so as most things Oh,
shots fired
I'm just not a fan. They're not the same person. They are two separate people. They're gonna grow up to live two different lives. Two different wives. Two different dogs named toy name toy. They're both gonna be Chainsmokers Chevrolet's or whatever. But let them be their different people. He's just gets my goat.
Leila rant.
Anyway, I didn't read Yeah, I didn't mean to do it. That's like, oh, my gosh.
Totally. Anyways, that's my rant for the day. Okay, I have another one. You never know you So,
let's see. Oh, have you heard about conjoined twins? Yeah, that is an interesting topic. Yeah, I remember in the 90s, there was like the a lot of like, ooh, mysterious world type shows. And we've talked about it before, like, they talked about Bermuda Triangle and UFOs, and all that fun stuff. And like, for a while, they're conjoined twins, which back when I was a kid, they would call them Siamese twins, which is not a, you know, politically correct term. But conjoined twins were
all over the TV. Like, every time they found a new set of conjoined twins, man, they got the reporters there. And they had people interview them. And they talked about the doctors and the doctors were like, well, there's nothing we can do to separate them. It's just a super interesting topic to me. How some of them are connected in different places. Some of them it's almost like just one body but two heads. And then like it brings up all these questions about you know, how do you do
certain things? How do you decide on certain things, it's just so
every pedia interviewed? A couple, maybe a couple or maybe just one conjoined twin. And they were pretty cool. They seem very pleasant. Oh, but they seemed very, like they were tired of each other.
Oh, yeah. I can imagine. I can imagine. So, let's see what what do they say in here?
There was a conjoined. Wait, go ahead. We're thinking. Yeah, there was a conjoined twin on Ruby Gloom. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
I love he was one of my faves. Yeah, there's,
there's, there's like lots of episodes of like,
I've Ruby glumes hair right now.
I could totally go. Ruby glumes hair I got right here. Where did you get RubyGems hair?
The hair salon. Oh, gotcha. Okay.
Yeah. When when Leila was at the salon, I did not want to stay. I went to a yard sale. I went to a couple of yard sales. And I got a lot of good stuff for like 10 bucks. I
know. But he always comes back from yard sales with so much crap. And I'm like how much you can afford? And he's like five bucks,
right? This one's yard sales or yard sales or for getting rid of your stuff, making enough money to have dinner and helping other people get stuff for real cheap. That's what yard sales for. A couple of weeks ago, I went to a yard sale and I got a limited edition. Legend of Zelda Nintendo two Ds in perfect condition for $20. Amazing. Yeah, that was a find.
I might steal that one. No. Using mine. No. Use
your little white and blue. Oh, no, it's i Yeah, the one the one. The Zelda one is a collector's item. We need to put it in plastic and make sure that it stays good. It makes your art state go to. Yeah, my only raising in price. Exactly. My new 3ds XL is is already like, twice what I paid for it. The black one. Yeah. Yes, they're just getting more and more expensive. So I'm just gonna take care of them. I just bought new batteries for them from Nintendo. So that we've got good
working batteries for decades to come. So if we ever do sell it, or you know, whatever, if you want to play it again. And then I got an interesting cartridge for the Nintendo 3ds That will emulate backup copies of games that I physically own. Yeah, cool. You have to physically own it if you're gonna play it on emulator. So I only have the ones that I physically own on that. That's neat stuff.
I just got a new leaf and wild world for 2d s 3ds.
Those still in played Animal Crossing games. Yeah. Well, you also got Splatoon and haven't played that three.
Yeah, I need to play that. You got some summer News last day. cried. Yeah,
she did. She came home crying. I did. She's gonna miss school. She actually enjoys going hanging out for friends. But I'm
very much an extrovert now. And it's terrible for like spring break and crap. Because I can't see my friends. I'm gonna invite my friends over. To hang out with them. It's fine. You
gotta help me finish putting the back porch together. Yeah, we're 40% of twins invent their own languages? No,
no. Yeah.
I think probably 40% of like, really, really close
friends as a twin. I have to say we don't. I'm not a twin. See only child when
you um, when I was a kid. We didn't make up our own language. But we did find secret languages like Pig Latin, and stuff like that to talk to each other and that we thought the parents
didn't understand Latin for about a week and then it just kind of gave up on it. We did
nonstop all the time. Sounds so dumb. It does. But it was like, I don't know. We felt like we were doing something. You know, like we're Yeah, super spies are But yeah, coming up with a fun language we
could if I needed to. I wonder
what the statistic is for just siblings, but I also having twins have
like things that I say that only my friends will understand. Well, yeah, that's like
inside jokes and common references, which is fantastic and like
it's another thing I'm gonna miss about my class. We had a whole like, like, thing going and then summer yep,
that's that's life though it works. It'll be like that with jobs too. You'll be in a job for a while and get to know people their
jobs and jobs. That's all for now. Okay, the oldest twins ever recorded were kin, NARC, Tia and Jin, Connie, whose names literally translated to gold and silver. They live to be 107 and 108 years old. Respectfully. Ah,
that was effective last year, though, for the for them to live longer. Yeah, that would be I mean, if they had a close relationship, and both twins
were born in night in 1892. In Narumi, village, Japan. Wow.
Wow. Whenever I hear that somebody was born, like pre 1900s. Or I know, I'm always like the how accurate was a birth records? You know, not that I'm doubting the birth date? Well, no. But if you think about it, you only know that you're five years old. When you start like thinking as a human person. You only know that you're five because you're told that you're five. Yeah. So like
what? You've read about that before? Yeah. Yeah, people not knowing their birthday. And I would not know that I'm 14, renew. I'm 14. This is a deep. Well, I
mean, you have like a continuity of of age. Yeah. Like your Oh, my last birthday was my fifth birthday. So this is where there's my sixth birthday. But if we told you
also, if you had no perception of time, you don't know how many days have passed. You just don't know how to write exactly
when you're three. If you don't know, there's no like, you can't learn
how fast your frontal lobe is growing. Because how would you? So you wouldn't know if you were over the age of 25?
Needles? No. Measuring tape. Oh, wow.
Oh my gosh.
So a popular myth surrounding twins is that they have some kind of extrasensory perception or telepathic ability that allows them to read each other's minds. There's no genuine science. Can you read your mind?
When it's just myself, I could read my mind. Do it. I'm so good at this. I know exactly what I'm thinking. What my twin is thinking at all times.
I think the knowing what each other thinks is just a result of being together all the time.
Yeah, having like a sister brother. I feel like we'd think the same thing at the same time. Well, it's like Phaedra and I.
Most situations, I know what she's thinking. What?
500 years?
Yeah, we're we're coming up on our 500th anniversary.
Oh, congratulations. Congratulation. Congratulation, I think it's funny.
500 years feels like sometimes.
We will bowl your country sometimes. is they're talking about something that happened when they were young and be like, oh, so like 500 BC? Like
what you do is you ask him seven at once. Hey, so like when you were like, like, you know, a teenager was it like really scary when they invented the train?
was like No, but that's too serious. That's like serious with a joke. We got a joke with a serious, you know,
well, you ask them things like No, I'm not gonna go into the old jokes. No, I'm getting too old.
You are getting too old. On the show. Oh, me all about it. We were off. But we're gonna say yeah, like me and my friends. We have secret. Like, till episode we have to live with they pretty much will think the same things at the same time.
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's a it's a shared
does the generational thing, right? There's,
there's a shared culture, shared experiences. That's what I was talking about with the twins. Like if you have all of the same inputs, as somebody else, your outputs are also going to be very similar. Yeah. And then you're also going to feed each other's personalities and, you know, thought patterns a lot. So you're gonna, you know, you're gonna react the same in certain bunch of the same situations because of all those reasons. There's another little spider Oh, no, I need to
get I need to spray out here. Studio. Yeah, I've got I've got bug spray that I'm just gonna spray all the entrances with it's really powerful stuff. Let's see what else Do we have over how
much
terrifying twins? Oh, the talking about the shining? Oh, the twins in The Shining were really really, really really, really creepy. Yeah, wearing blue dresses. The Danny the little kitten, the shining comes around the corner and he thinks that they're alone in the hotel and then just sees this little set of twins just stand on the end of the hall. And it's a very liminal space type situation. Like if you watch him when he's he's riding the tricycle thingy, the big wheel power, they will
thing when he goes around the corner. Like he's passing by hotel rooms. And you can see the hotel room doors on like the right and left of the screen. And then he turns right, and then immediately turns right again. And then there's more doors. So if you like try and visualize how that building is laid out, those are doors to nowhere. You couldn't even like it's like a flat wall with doors on so like and and that was just one of the ways that it messed with your head without even
realizing it was messing with your head. Beyond the you know, the really scary, obviously scary and jumpscares and things like that. Yeah.
Well, I think I'm good. For fact,
I did have one more little set. It's actually two it's two that are very similar. Okay. And this is one of those coffin here. Land of twins, the country, Brennan binnen. B, E, ni N, located in central Africa has the highest rate of twin births in the world. With 20 27.9 sets born out of every 1000 births. Wait a minute. So that's only 2.8. But Massachusetts has for Massachusetts. Massachusetts, isn't the country is this twin verse. Oh, I understand. It's not a I understand it's not a contract.
We're not talking about states. Here are my boundaries. Well, I guess. Yeah. You can't really. Okay. You can't Hey,
okay. Can do a country stop and a state Okay. States are all one country. The 50 What 15 ft. United States that the colonies? Yes. They are all what country? So when you average? Maybe not? And, you know, no, not Anywho?
What causes?
They're wrong? No,
I'm I am wrong. And I thought about it. I was like, what if I even make it smaller, and like just go down to like the neighborhood level. And there just happens to be, you know, randomly. There's three women that move in and all three of them have sets of twins. That's like a 100% rate
estimates and averages, statistics. Get my goat.
Leila, because
he gets my goat averages and statistics, not just statistics in general, or charts. I hate charts. I hate pie charts. I hate bar graphs. I hate all of it. But putting them into calculators. Annoying. Looking at them annoying hearing about them annoying. Making them annoying. Why do we still use statistics and 2024 just count
Leila read? Just count statistics are important for deceiving people.
I know. The government the government is using statistics. They're listening to the government
that'd be a good good drop at the end of soda. We saw that earlier. Yeah.
That's 39 seconds. Okay,
so Twin City. 39 minutes.
39 seconds of the episode. Yeah, we
are. We are the town of Candido. Go Kansas. Go. Don't go roll. In South America is the twin capital of the world with 8% of births between 1959 So what is it? I know right? No. Okay.
I'm mad about it. Uh huh. I hate statistics. Exactly. I hate twins.
Well, no, here's the thing is both of these stats come from the same website? The same? Like there's two different places.
Slash things slash 42 For you see meaning of life, the universe and everything. Yeah, this one's I'm 42 Dude.
Here's the town verse. Yes, citizens believe that there's a reason the reason for the unusually high The number of twins in this place in South America is in the water. But DNA test shows that it's because of high levels of inbreeding caused an uptick with the twin gene. Yeah, so cool. I guess inbreeding makes twins more likely don't. Yes. Don't just didn't believe it. They're
42 uncanny facts, twins.
Yep. 42 Dash uncanny fat dash pack. You know what, just go to FunFactFriday.com. Click the show notes for this episode. And there's a link to it. So there you go.
So we totally get all the money that goes to the fact that oh, my gosh, we're having an ad for them right now. Well,
you know, this isn't an ad. These sites, I'm wondering how much longer the ad sustained website model is going to last because the ad blockers are so prevalent now. Because the way it went is there was like, Oh, I've got one little banner ad on my website. And I was like, Well, man, if I put three on there, I'd make triple the money. And then people were like ad blocker. And then they were like, Oh, I'll put sneaky ads that get around the ad blockers. Oh, and then I'll stop you from
reading my site. And if you have an ad blocker, and then like people are just going to eventually be like, I'm just not going to go to any websites. Yeah, I'm just gonna go to social media and
be an Amish. Yeah. Hey, hey, you know, moving mountains.
I'm doing it some goats. A couple of cows. Totally. And Bingo. Bingo. Leila is hyped up. I think she had some some cookies or something. Some ice cream I
drink a probiotic water oh really hope that people are sniff stayed around. Oh.
All right, everybody boring episode. But
I'm glad you stick around to hear me talking about my probiotic water.
That's amazing. Published was a good one.
That's pretty, pretty, pretty lame.
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