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Facts about Twins

Ethan and Grayson Dolan (born December 16, 1999), collectively known as The Dolan Twins, are an American comedy duo who rose to prominence in May 2013 on the video sharing application Vine. They are currently signed to AwesomenessTV, and have been since 2015.

Conjoined twins are identical twins joined in utero. An extremely rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 49,000 births to 1 in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southeast Asia and Africa. Approximately half are stillborn, and an additional one-third die within 24 hours.

Patrick and Benjamin Binder (born February 2, 1987) were conjoined twins, joined at the head, born in Germany in early 1987, and separated at Johns Hopkins Hospital on September 7, 1987. They were the first twins to be successfully separated by neurosurgeon Ben Carson, of Baltimore, Maryland.

Conjoined twins are genetically identical, and are, therefore, always the same sex. They develop from the same fertilized egg, and they share the same amniotic cavity and placenta. ... In the case of conjoined twins, a woman only produces a single egg, which does not fully separate after fertilization.

At 64 years old, Ronnie and Donnie Galyon are the world's oldest living conjoined twins. Previously, Italian conjoined twins Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, who were born in 1877 and lived until the age of 63, held the record.Mar 5, 2015

Identical (monozygotic) twins are always of the same sex because they form from a single zygote (fertilized egg) that contains either male (XY) or female (XX) sex chromosomes. ... A set of boy/girl twins can only be fraternal (dizygotic). Boy/girl twins cannot be identical (monozygotic).Oct 23, 2017

Driving And Dressing. In the case of 25-year old Abigail “Abby” Hensel and Brittany Hensel, each twin fully controls her half of the body — one leg and one arm on either side. They are symmetric conjoined twins with normal proportions.Mar 23, 2016

And while some posit that twins possess ESP or telepathic abilities thanks to stories of uncanny communication, the concept is not widely accepted by the medical community; it is not uncommon, however, for twins (conjoined and otherwise) to have hyperawareness of each other's emotions and feelings.Oct 22, 2014

And of course twins can be conjoined. But these twins are identical which means by definition they have the same mom and dad. In fact, they have the same DNA! So no, conjoined twins with different fathers is not possible.Sep 23, 2015

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