August 7 – Twins Days Festival

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• Innaddition to identical and fraternal twins, there are other, rarerntypes of twins, including half-identical twins, mirror image twins,nmixed chromosome twins, and other types!

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• Also,nsome twins have different birthdays – or are even born in andifferent year! Of course, that can happen because some babies arenborn near midnight. 

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nLet’s say that one twin is born at 11:57 p.m. onnApril 18, and the other twin is born at 12:01 a.m. on April 19 –nthe twins are only born four minutes apart, but they have differentnbirthdays. 

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nA more extreme example is a baby born at, say, 11:55 p.m.non December 31, 2014 and the twin is born at 12:02 a.m. on January 1,n2015. Not only is the birthday different, the two babies are born inndifferent months and years – even though they are only born sevennminutes apart!

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  nSometimes,nidentical twins marry identical twins. There is a “twin couple”nin China that ran a diner that was open for 21 hours a day, stagingntheir shifts so that none of the twins were ever on at the same time.nPeople thought it was just one couple running the diner, but theynbegan to notice that neither the man or woman EVER SEEMED TO SLEEP!nThey began to be called “The Robot Couple.” n

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  nAfternthree years, the truth finally came out that the super-couple wasnreally TWO couples of identical twins!

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• nAugustn holidays 

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in August

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in September

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