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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: Someone asked me on Facebook what the w stood forward?

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Speaker 1: You see that? And I thought, and you said, will Amina, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not true, but I'm not telling I know what.

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Speaker 1: It's Dandsbard. I don't know if I know your name.

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Speaker 1: I'm not telling. Why don't I know that? I'm doubting

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Speaker 1: reality right now? Okay, all right, moving on? What's your

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Speaker 1: shut up? Buddy? Um, I don't really have a setup, Chuck. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting a little sick of my own setups? Do

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Speaker 1: you have one? Okay, let's talk about Twins? That is

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Speaker 1: not a tuma. How's that? That's pretty good from the

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Speaker 1: movie Twins. Yeah, No, that's from Kindergarten Cop. It's so lame. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I give that. It's okay, man, you

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Speaker 1: got the you got the exit down. Perfect. Twins was

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Speaker 1: when he sang the yackac don't talk back, don't talk back,

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Speaker 1: don't talk back. You. Okay, So twins, Yes, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about twins obviously, um or we're talking about kindergarten cop

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Speaker 1: to toss up at this point. Actually, um, let's go

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Speaker 1: with twins, chuckers. All right. So you've known some twins,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure in your life. Yeah, I've done a few.

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Speaker 1: I used to know a lot more back when I

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Speaker 1: was in school. Um, I knew twins. I don't know

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Speaker 1: any now, I don't think. Yeah, I don't know actively

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Speaker 1: know any twins. You never jog with any of them. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you are familiar then, as I'm sure most people are.

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Speaker 1: There not entirely uncommon, although there's a lot fewer of

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Speaker 1: them than one might imagine, especially identical twins. Right, Fraternal

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Speaker 1: twins are actually way more common. Uh, And we'll get

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Speaker 1: into how these things are made. And by these things,

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Speaker 1: I mean people who are twins to will soon be

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Speaker 1: corralled like gingers. Right, Yes, two thirds more common I

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Speaker 1: think is is the fraternal twins. Okay, Um, I guess

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Speaker 1: to to get to the point of how twins are made,

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Speaker 1: we should maybe talk a little bit about how babies

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Speaker 1: are made. And what we're talking about are called singletons

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Speaker 1: like you me, Jerry, Jerry, you're not a twin, are you? Okay,

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Speaker 1: Jerry says no, So we're all singletons, is what people

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Speaker 1: like us are called, very unique little snowflakes. Yeah, uh so, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about how a singleton is made. Okay, I'll

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Speaker 1: get the ball rolling. We're not going to talk about

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Speaker 1: the nasty, dirty things that go into making babies. We'll

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Speaker 1: just go with the science of it all. Uh about

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Speaker 1: midway through a women's menstrual cycle, she releases an egg. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's that's what it sounds like. Think so as it

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Speaker 1: travels down the fallopian tube, and then, uh, that single

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Speaker 1: spermy guy, right, and a bunch of them are coming

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Speaker 1: at it at once. Yeah, imagine that's rather intimidating. And

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Speaker 1: apparently I understand that um, brothers brother sperm related sperm

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Speaker 1: can recognize one another in the uterus and will tag

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Speaker 1: team to like get there faster. They'll draft, or they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll connect, and they'll try to like put other people

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Speaker 1: out teammates in a NASCAR race exactly. But um, when

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Speaker 1: they get to the egg gets every man for himself, right,

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Speaker 1: And so the sperm gets to the egg and fertilizes it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and then um, what you have About a day and

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Speaker 1: z I got right. And then after that it divides

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Speaker 1: into the fertilized egg divides into two yeah. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: And then right four days later it is about one

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Speaker 1: you keep hogging all the great words. And then the

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Speaker 1: And along the way, we all developed vestigial tails. Did

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Speaker 1: so chuck uh. Week nine, you've got a fetus Prior

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Speaker 1: And with with the die zygotic twin, I'm sorry, a

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Speaker 1: fraternal twin, you've got three possible sets of combinations, two males,

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Speaker 1: of all, um fraternal twins. Yeah, those are my favorites.

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Speaker 1: chuck uh. The same thing can happen with multiple births, triplets.

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Speaker 1: fused amniotic sacks. And this is not necessarily a good thing. Actually, no,

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Speaker 1: fetal growth restriction with just like Danny DeVitto and um

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Speaker 1: funny frank, Yeah, but I imagine that that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: stingy governatory and Josh. Another thing can happen called twin

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Speaker 1: Twin and a Twin UM, she refers to herself in

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Speaker 1: first person as the author in this throughout UM. She

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Speaker 1: mentioned that, UH, twins that have UM undergone twin to

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Speaker 1: eight now eight is enough? Uh? And then of course, chuck,

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Speaker 1: And so all of a sudden you have can join twins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so maybe they just listened to different music and well

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Speaker 1: another one was more articulate than the other, and the

419
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Speaker 1: other was a better writer than the articulate one. Alright, yes,

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Speaker 1: interesting stuff. Imagine having a twin with the same first

421
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Speaker 1: name being like hey Jim, Hey Jim. They get old

422
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: really fast, nice sideburns, nice mop top, let's go smoke

423
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: some Salem's let's oh boy um and then uh forty

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00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 1: eight hours the TV show did did a special on

425
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Speaker 1: identical twins raised Apart, and they found interesting things like

426
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: Barbara and Daphne that were twins and they both had

427
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: miscarriages and then had two boys and one girl. A

428
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: little bit of a connection there, I don't know, however,

429
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Speaker 1: the top that is though, are those the giggle twins? Yeah,

430
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: because they apparently had the same laugh. Well they crossed

431
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Speaker 1: their arms and giggle in the same way, right, which

432
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: you could have picked up from watching ALF. They could

433
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Speaker 1: have both been watching ALF. Yeah you never know? Yeah

434
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: did you watch ALF? Yeah? I didn't watch OFF. I

435
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,719
Speaker 1: never got it. It's like a puppet. Have you ever

436
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: seen Permanent Midnight? Oh yeah, that's the guy who wrote

437
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: the first season of ALF. That's what Permanent Midnight is about.

438
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: If you go watch Permanent Midnight and then you go

439
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: watch the first season at ALF, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: like kind of really quick, dark funny things in there

441
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: that My favorite part of that movie is when he

442
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: and Owen Wilson are had lost their drugs and Owen

443
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: Wilson says, if I was a Perka Dan, where would

444
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: I be? Great line and chuck. You know, um, twins

445
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: root apart is like a perfect natural experiment to try

446
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: to settle nature versus nurture. Yeah right, Um, it's not

447
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: always a natural experiment. And I'm making air quotes for

448
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: those of you who can't see. There's a group in

449
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Speaker 1: New York that was affiliated well, they had an end

450
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Speaker 1: with a your adoption agency in New York and I

451
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: think the sixties, and they were basically like, oh, you've

452
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Speaker 1: got some twins up for adoption. Make sure that this

453
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Speaker 1: goes this one to this family, and this goes to

454
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: this family, and then they kept tabs. So they were

455
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Speaker 1: like purposefully separating twins and in the adoption through the

456
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Speaker 1: adoption agency and then studying them like this huge longitudinal study. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And actually, uh, they apparently got some really great results,

458
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: but they became so afraid. Is apparently the public sentiment of,

459
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: you know, separating twins for the study of nature versus nurture.

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00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: Public sentiment changed. So by the eighties, I think they

461
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: concluded this twenty year study. Um, they were like, Okay,

462
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Speaker 1: we're just going to never talk about this for the

463
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Speaker 1: next sixty years. So they sealed it and I think

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00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: it's in like a the Yale University Library under lock

465
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: and key. But it's coming out in the next like

466
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: ten or twenty years. I think, Yeah, it's gonna rock

467
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: our world. Yeah that in the whole Kennedy assassination, the

468
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: truth will be out there. I don't know if that

469
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: one's overcoming out. We'll know when their dates set for

470
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Speaker 1: it is there. Yeah, I think so where the records

471
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: are gonna be open? Awesome, can't wait. I need to

472
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: watch more stuff they don't want you to know. Huh. Yes,

473
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: are awesome Conspiracy Theorist podcast. Yeah, uh so, Josh, we

474
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: do know that, Um, we don't know what causes the

475
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: uh the MZ twins right now, but we do know

476
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Speaker 1: that the rate is consistent throughout the world, which is

477
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 1: about one and two fifty right now. That's that doesn't

478
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: necessarily mean that, like it's every time there's what did

479
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: you say, one in to fifty or four in a thousand?

480
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: One in fifty is a little easier, okay, But it

481
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that every time there's a thousand births, you

482
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: know there's four equally distributed. No, of course, not right.

483
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Speaker 1: But if you take the birth statistics across the entire world,

484
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna find about four per one thousand, and actually

485
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: by ethnic group, uh it changes. African Americans tend to

486
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: have far more twins than any other group. And Africans

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Speaker 1: and I'm sorry African people of African descent um, and

488
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: Africans themselves. Sure that I think they said that Yoruba

489
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: tribe in Nigeria has forty five per one thousand births,

490
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: and that's a lot. That is a whole lot. Uh.

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00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: On the low end, Chinese people have eleven point two

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Speaker 1: per one thousand berths right, right, And that that's in

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00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: the United States, by the way, not in China. Chinese

494
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Speaker 1: people living in the United States, So Chinese Americans have

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00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: eleven point two per one thousand, but if you go

496
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Speaker 1: to China, it's like eight hundred per one thousand. I

497
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: don't think that's the right number. That is not the

498
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: right number. But um, there are a couple of factors involved,

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00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: chuck real quick. Um the the uh. I think the

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Speaker 1: follicle stimulating hormone can cause a woman to have more

501
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: than one egg. Um. And that's usually found more frequently

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00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: in heavy women and older women. Uh. And we've been

503
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: kind of trending towards he and right as far as

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Speaker 1: parents go. So twinning as a result in the US

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00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: has risen eighty or thirty eight percent and sixty five percent.

506
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: Since that's pretty big jump. Okay, so let's move along

507
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: and get rid of some myth. Dude. Twin language josh right,

508
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: also known as idea glossia and cryptophagia. That is, uh,

509
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Speaker 1: when some people say it, twins have like a secret

510
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: language that they speak to each other, sort of not true.

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Speaker 1: What the deal usually is is, um, let's say when

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Speaker 1: they're developing. Let's say the first little twin has like

513
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Speaker 1: a slower development with the language than the second twin.

514
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: The second twin will kind of hang back or mimic

515
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: and mimic mirror neurons, maybe mimic the other twin, and

516
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they kind of developed this

517
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: code if you will, right. Uh, so twin language, no

518
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: technically no, all right? Uh? And then you always hear

519
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: about twins having esp like one of them gets injured

520
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: somewhere and the other one across the country knows about

521
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: it right then or or something. So this have been

522
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: tested actually, and uh. In one experiment, it's kind of clever.

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00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: They took two twins and they put one. They put

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Speaker 1: them in separate rooms, split them up. Well, yeah, you

525
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: got to, or else they'll just cheat like crazy. I

526
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: wonder if they faked it though, and they're like they

527
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: really thought they had Donnie when they had Ronnie. Yeah

528
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: you have both, yeah, yeah, um, but you split one.

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Speaker 1: You split them up and you give one some cards

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Speaker 1: to pick to choose from with different illustrations on it,

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Speaker 1: and then the other one has the same set of

532
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: cards in another room. So you have the one that

533
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: chose to the card, the sender send the image telepathically

534
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: to the target, the recipient twin, and then the recipient

535
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: twin is supposed to choose that card. Well, the crazy

536
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: thing is is, in the first round of this experiment

537
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: they got it right like half of the time, which

538
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: is pretty significant. But then they altered the experiment a

539
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: little bit and they had a an assistant choose the

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00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: card for the twin, and then the twins sent them telepathically,

541
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it dropped the right. And

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00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: they think that it was because the twins were hitting

543
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: at because of shared preferences, not uh tell telleth telepathy.

544
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: There's something really wrong with me today. Yeah, I think

545
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: that's probably the deal. That a lot of experiments don't

546
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: show any kind of special bond. Some do, but the

547
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: same experiments show that special bond between let's say a

548
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: mother and a daughter or a brother and a sister

549
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: that aren't twins, and they think that it probably just

550
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: has more to do with um, like you said, growing

551
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: up together, shared preferences and interest, that kind of thing.

552
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: So what do you want to do celebs or movies

553
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: famous twins? Josh, have you ever heard of Mario Andretti

554
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: race car driver. Yes, no, I have been either. That's see.

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00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: I highlighted the ones that I was like. I didn't

556
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: know they had a twin because some of them obviously,

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00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: you know, like Jenna and Barbara Bush. Yeah, but they're

558
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: for turn A right. Uh yeah, Giselle Bunch in the

559
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: smoking hot model. Yeah, Jesus sister. I imagine a smoking

560
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: hot sister. She is good looking, she's her manager. She's

561
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: not model hot, but she is very attractive. Are they

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Speaker 1: identical or fraternal? Their fraternal? Vin Diesel really yeah? He

563
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: has a kind of a funny looking brother named Paul Vincent.

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00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: A picture of him. How do you name your kid?

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00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: Paul Vincent? And then Vin Diesel's a stage name, dude.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if his name is Vincent Paul. Oh. Maybe

567
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: maybe his parents were very unamazed innative, or maybe Paul

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00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: Diesel changed his name to Vincent because he thought it

569
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: was too you know. Gear Head Scarlett Johansson has a

570
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: brother named Hunter. They look a lot alike Ashton Kutcher,

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Speaker 1: Did you know that? I think that rang a bell? Actually? Yeah?

572
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: The Cutch has a brother named Michael, who has cerebral palsy. Sadly. Yes,

573
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: that does ring a bell. Yeah, and he like it's

574
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: his kind of lives for him him and has brought

575
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,479
Speaker 1: a lot of awareness to that um altist. Morrissett as

576
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: a brother named Wade who cares. And Wade Morrisset is

577
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: a singer, yoga dude and a cureton. It's just like

578
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: an Indian chanter. Can we be done now? Uh? Parker

579
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: Posey as a brother named Chris Cool. I'll bet he's cool. Uh.

580
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: And then Keifer William, Frederick Dempsey, George Rufus Sutherland. Did

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00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: you know he had that many names? Yes, he has

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00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: a fraternal twin sister named Rachel. Why would you give

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00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: a kid that many names? Donald Southerland is probably smoking

584
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 1: a lot of something back in the day. Oh yeah,

585
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: at least he did an animal House. And then, of

586
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: course my favorite twins, Kim and Kelly deal. Kim deal

587
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: with the Breeders. Okay, well they're both in the Breeders

588
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: and Kim was in the Pixies. Pixies Uh. And before

589
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: we move on, I want to put a call out

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00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: because I saw a special one time on a TV

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00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,760
Speaker 1: show about these two twins. Two I think like twelve

592
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: year old black girls in England, and they mimicked everything exactly.

593
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: They spoken stereo at the same exact time, they walked

594
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: exactly the same in synchronousy. It's like the twins in

595
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: the Shiny It's very creepy and that's exactly what they were.

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00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: And you know what happened. But one day they found

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00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: one of them drowning the other one in a creek.

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00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: Did they save the one? I don't know and I

599
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: can't find I saw this like years ago and I

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00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: have never, ever ever been able to find anything on it.

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00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: So putting the call out there to the s Y

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00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: s k army anyone knows about this, I'm dying to

603
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: know the story. Well, if you want to read one

604
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: of the better articles on how stuff works, check out

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00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: twins is type twins in the handy search bar how

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00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: stuff works dot com and that leads us to listener mail. Yes, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I have a couple of quick ones. This is from

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Speaker 1: Adrian and Canadian City, fredericton n B. What does that mean?

609
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Yeah, probably he's eleven. It's called

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00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 1: Canadian City, New Brunswick. Or he's saying, yeah, it's hey, guys,

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00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: my name is Adrian. In case you're wondering, I'm a boy,

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00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: and surprisingly enough, I am only eleven years old and

613
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: I listen to your podcast every night. I can I

614
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: believe that thanks to you guys, I'm the smartest boy

615
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: in my class in the subject of interesting facts. And Jerry,

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00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: I have not forgotten about you. I believe that without you,

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00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: the sound effects would run for the hills. Keep up

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00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: the good work, people. Please put this in your next podcast,

619
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: because if I heard myself on the show, then it

620
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: would be one of the highlights of my life. Well,

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Speaker 1: technically you're not hearing yourself, but you're hearing Chuck read

622
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: you Adrian. But that's close enough. That's right. Jerry loved this.

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00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: When Jerry Ford did this after we had already seen it,

624
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: did she go cute, Well, i've the sound effects. They

625
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: would run for the hills and that's adorable. No, she

626
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Speaker 1: just wanted to remind us of her place and exactly.

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Speaker 1: come out after this one. No, it already came out. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you Adrian and Abu Uh. Send us an email.

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