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two people splitting one cosmic joke before they could even speak it.
means One of two children born from the same pregnancy, or, more loosely, either of two things that match each other exactly.
from From Old English 'getwinn,' meaning a double or one of two born together, rooted in the ancient sense of 'two.' It belongs to a wide Germanic family — related to Old Norse 'tvinnr' (double) and a cousin of words like 'twine' (two threads twisted into one) and 'between.' The thread running through them all is the number two, doubled and intertwined.
- fingerprints
- Identical twins have completely different fingerprints.
- secret language
- Many twins invent private tongues called cryptophasia.
- mirror effect
- Some twins are reversed, opposite-handed mirror images.
- womb fights
- Twins jostle and touch each other before birth.
- vanishing twin
- One twin is sometimes absorbed early in pregnancy.
chang and eng bunker — conjoined twins born in siam (thailand) in 1811, toured as circus attractions and gave the term 'siamese twins'
petrozavodsk and duluth — sister cities on opposite sides of lake superior since 1973, representing soviet-american cold war cooperation