Incredible facts
1. A restaurant that only employs twins
If you see the same waitress walking by you twice in a row when you sat down for dinner in Moscow, you should know that this is not déjà vu, it's just that the restaurant is actually full of twins.
Twin Stars is a new establishment in the Russian capital that employs only twins and siblings.
The owner of the restaurant Alexey Khodorkovsky says that the idea of creating such a restaurant was inspired by his favorite childhood fairy tale – “The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors”, in which the main character, once in Through the looking glass, he meets his double there.
Khodorkovsky emphasizes that it was very difficult to find qualified staff among the twins.
Twin stories
2. A Brazilian city where, after a visit to a Nazi doctor, one in five pregnancies ends in the birth of twins
Cândido Godói is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, located near the Argentine border. It is famous for its huge number of twins born there, and this is despite the population of 6641 people.
Most twins are an ethnically homogeneous population of German origin. From 1990 to 1994, 10 per cent of births in San Pedro ended in twins, compared to 1 per cent in Brazil as a whole.
Many theories have emerged that explain what this may be related to. The most interesting of these is his involvement in the case of Joseph Mengel, known as the Angel of Death, and responsible for 400,000 people who died in horrifying medical experiments.
Twin mothers live longer
A German doctor who escaped punishment moved to Southern Brazil in the 1960s. This was exactly the period when twins began to be born.
An Argentine journalist suggested in his book that Mengel experimented on women, which led to the birth of so many twins, many of them with blond hair and blue eyes.
Mengel, who died in Brazil in 1979, was known for his brutal experiments, including on twins in Auschwitz, in an attempt to “breed” the Aryan race for Adolf Hitler.
3. Kindergarten attended by twins
A kindergarten in Pittsburgh, USA, has its own method of acclimatizing kindergartens to school life, but this method is not so easy to share with other kindergartens.
The fact is that 10 pairs of twins study in this preparatory garden. This means that 20 out of 100 students start the school year with at least one close friend.
Nursery school principal Jeff Rojik states that kindergartens are often very nervous and anxious when it comes time for them to go to school, but with so many twins, “transition feels less painful.”
4. Havana district where 12 twin pairs live side by side
Cubans are only surprised at the wonderful feature that is observed in one of the districts of western Havana. Twelve twin couples live in two adjacent houses, ranging in age from newborns to elderly.
At first glance, 68 A-Street seems pretty ordinary. Children are playing, music is playing. But when a person starts to double his eyes, he realizes that something is happening.
Ten pairs of people here are twins, and 2 pairs are twins. The former are similar to each other like two drops of water, and are usually of the same sex. The latter are ordinary siblings. None of these people's mothers have been treated for infertility, and most of them claim that this feature was inherited by them.
Fantastic stories about twins
No twin pair is related to each other by any family ties. In addition, all the twins and twins, except one couple, were born in Havana. This pair of twins moved from Spain.
224 people live in 70 houses on this street. That is, there is one pair of twins for every 20 people, which is well above the average anywhere else. As a rule, on average, one pair of twins is born for every 80 newborns in the world.
Scientists say that a number of factors influence the birth of twins, including race, mother's age, diet, and others. In West Africa, where many Afro-Cubans can trace their ancestry down to 6-7 knees, twin birth rates are very high.
5. 12 twin pairs in the same class
In 2012, 12 pairs of applicants graduated from a school in the US state of Georgia. 24 graduates are a mix of twins and twins. Despite the unusual situation, most of the guys don't see it as anything special.
It was a class that only attended by pairs of twins and twins, and there were no “strangers” here.
6. A rugby team with five pairs of twins
The South African junior rugby team stunned its opponents, other team members and even coaches when, after recruiting children in 2013, it turned out to be among other children to train as a team there will be 5 pairs of twins aged 7-9.
At the same time, three pairs of children are twins, and two pairs are twins. The coach admits that he has not yet learned to distinguish between all twins, so he calls them not by name, but simply “twins”.
7. Illinois school with 23 pairs of twins in fifth grade
This fact is worthy of the Guinness Book of Records.
The count began by accident when fifth-graders Ryan and Luke Novosel received an updated version of the Guinness Book of Records. There they came across an existing record in this category and began to count how many twins they had in school in fifth grade.
As it turns out, they have more.
School principal Dave Palzet noted that they had collected all the necessary documentation and sent a request to the Book of Records office. They are currently waiting for a response.
He hopes that this fact may indirectly help to introduce children to reading. “To be honest, this is not the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, but if it encourages students to read, why not be on this list.”
People are twins
8. A community in Nigeria known as the “Land of Twins”
Igbo-Ora is an ordinary peasant community in southwestern Nigeria that welcomes visitors with a poster calling the area “The Land of Twins”.
“It is unlikely that you will find a family here without twins,” says community spiritual leader Olayide Akinyemi, a 71-year-old father of 12 children.
The Yoruba people rank first in the world for the birth of dizygotic twins. For every 1,000 newborns, these people give birth to 45-50 pairs of twins. Perhaps this is due to their active consumption of a certain type of sweet potato, which contains natural phytoestrogens that stimulate the ovaries to work more actively.
Twins are the most mysterious people on earth
The birth of twins in this community is perceived as a mystery; they take great care of this feature of their people, giving each of them special names.
If a family suddenly has a misfortune and dies, the parents order a wooden figure that “takes the place” of the deceased. Half of the soul of a person who has passed away is believed to live in this figure. Therefore, her mother dresses her, “feeds” her and cares for her like a living double.
Family stories: twins
9. A mother who gave birth to twins three times
Karen Rodger, 41, and her husband Colin, 44, were over the moon when a woman in a maternity hospital in Glasgow gave birth to two girls in May 2013.
An incredible birth: a third pair of twins and the birth of quintuplets
The couple already has two pairs of twin boys, one 12 years old and the other 14. Experts say that the chance that Karen's third pregnancy would end with the birth of twins was 1 in 500,000.
The girls turned out to be twins and were born by cesarean section.
10. A restaurant run by two twin brothers married to two twin sisters
None of the visitors understood how this Chinese couple could work 21 hours a day tirelessly. But as it turns out, the restaurant is run by 2 families in which 2 twins married 2 twins.
Before discovering this truth, locals nicknamed the place where robots work because they couldn't understand how the same people could close a restaurant at 3 a.m. and open at 6 a.m. A local journalist later found out the truth and everything fell into place.