David: Hello, and welcome. Just
Leila: with David and Leila.
David: Leila is over there playing 2048 on a computer as we
get ready to record, and we're already recorded
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Leila: week. We're gonna check levels before we record No. Are
they already done? They're
David: done. We're good to go.
Leila: Sorry, I couldn't get my my record.
David: Before we record. Leila always plays like a little web
game. Yeah, I do. She has got this site that she goes to so
website,
Leila: just look up games online. So this is 2048. Game
online.com. Right. And we're not we don't
David: know if there's bad stuff on the site. So yeah. So
discretion is we
Leila: use a browser that blocks stuff like that, right? So let's
see, we're not saying it. Because we don't want to give a
free ad nollie. Well,
David: we don't get paid ads either. So really, we can just
talk about whatever we want, whether we like it or not. I
have like four, four different browsers on this computer. Oh,
my God. I was trying them all out. And I just never went and
deleted the ones that I don't use and actually use them for
different things like Google Chrome is pretty much
exclusively YouTube. I've got no show notes for the show. When
I'm looking for because it has a reading mode, which strips all
of the ads and pictures and everything out of the out of the
website. So you've got a nice clean reading pane that you can
I can read all of our FX over off of Yeah, that's so cool.
It's really neat. And then Firefox is my main one. That's
the one I use for most stuff. Only Firefox and brave. I kind
of like I'm bouncing back from tourists. I'm trying to figure
out which one I
Leila: use for everything I don't. I'm brave on the phone
isn't as good. Right? My opinion, but only computer is
awesome.
David: I've been using brave for a while but I kind of want to
support Firefox simply because it's pretty much the only one
Firefox. It's pretty much the only one that's not chrome based
now.
Leila: I don't know I guess opera.
David: I haven't tried opera. But I want to try opera opera is
apple. Oh, is it? Yeah. So I kind of wanted to get away from
Google and Apple. Yeah. They wanted to try it in order to go
something more free and open source. I mean, yeah. So I know.
It's mine, and Thunderbird, which is the other Mozilla
project, which is an email.
I use that for like, a week. It does. Oh, they
revamped it recently. It's fantastic now, it's amazing.
Yeah.
Leila: But don't retry. Well, that's about boring browsers.
David: I dyed my hair again. Yes. And it looks way better
than it did. Oh, yeah. It looks like an Auburn. Right. Like an
Auburn dark red. Yeah, type color. But it's all one color.
Yeah, it's I mean, it's got little highlights, and
lowlights. But it's
Leila: an parts that we didn't fully cover. So it's still kind
of brown. Brown. Blue. wasn't
David: the best I wasn't, we should have gotten to we should
have gotten two bottles. That's what we should have done. But
look around a lot of hair. I like the fact that it's not like
an unnatural color. Like there are people with that color hair.
You know, it's not like blue or green. That's a different
spider. complemental. Oh,
Leila: okay, he's got it. He's getting up. Oh, oh. There we go.
I didn't even see it. A
David: very tiny spider. It was coming straight down from my
head. So I dyed
Leila: it just in time for the last week of school. Yep. And
it's like, oh, look, I'm
David: so cool. That's our good news for this week.
Leila: Oh, yeah. That is my good news for this week. Leila
David: is now officially a redhead, a high schooler. Oh.
That's so what's our episode about this week? Leila?
Leila: I'm twins. When I think my
squeaky chair there we go. So identical
twins do not have identical fingerprints. Why
David: not? But they are identical. Oh, no.
Leila: Oh, I was gonna say Oh, no. And then sneeze went away.
As soon as I said that, dang it.
David: So I don't know why I got this idea. Oh, either.
Leila: I was like, he was like, what are you gonna do for this
week? I was like, Oh,
David: I know how I got bored. Because sometimes, like, I just
got home. We have had so many episodes. I'm always looking for
something new. And I will type into Google like, fun fact about
and then just leave it blank and just enter. And when I say
Google, I mean brave search. And just let it like and then I
click one of the things and I'll give me a random fact within
like, I take that subject, and we'll pick out a topic from
Yeah, I assume. All right. So I saw a fun fact about identical
twins is blah, blah, blah. And I was like, oh, yeah, let's do
twins, because there's lots of neat stuff about twins. Lots of
twins. And there's so much more about twins that I didn't know.
Leila: So it was your favorite twin? Probably.
David: Jim and Jim. The twins with that same name. Have you
ever heard their story?
Leila: And no, I think we're about to talk about it, though.
We
David: are. That's my main thing. Do you want to just do a
quick little quick little couple of fun facts before I go into
the twins? Alright, so they were separated at birth. They were
born in 1940. And they were adopted by two separate
families, each one taking the surname of the family that were
adopted by Jim Lewis and Jim Springer. Both families called
their new sons James or Jim for short. James, it can be Jim,
Jimmy, or James or Jimmy James. It's what we used to call our
buddy. Anyway, they grew up nearly 40 miles from each other
in Minnesota, Jim Lewis was aware that he had been separated
from a twin brother, but Jim Springer's mother had told him
his twin had died at birth. After they reunited at the age
of 39. The similarities that they found in their lives were
astonishing. This is from mirror.co.uk just I'm reading it
and having commentary. So I'd call that stealing content but
the two men married wives, and the wives had the first same,
the same first name and had similar interests and hobbies.
Or this is the Yeah, they did similar jobs, and they each had
a dog with the same name. As for instance, Springer and Luis both
had a brother Larry, and a dog called toy. As students they
both enjoyed mathematics and woodwork, but had a strong
dislike for spelling. Both of the twins first wives names were
Linda, and when they divorced them, they both married a second
wife called Betty. Each man had a son to whom they gave the name
James Allen. Jim Lewis was a chain smoker suffered from
migraines and Joe drove a Chevrolet. He worked as a
security guard. Jim Springer was a chain smoker suffered from
migraines and drove a Chevrolet. And he worked as a deputy
sheriff. Wow. Their paths cross for the first time in 1979,
after Jim Lewis discovered the contact details for his
identical twin. The twins were participants in a study by Dr.
Thomas brookshaw Bouchard at the University of Minnesota. They
were asked to complete tests on their personality, medical
history and brainwaves, and their scores were remarkably
remarkably similar on all three tests.
Leila: Do I have any secret siblings?
David: Not that we not that we're aware of? And I was there
when you were born? So I feel like I would have noticed. You
know, a second baby
Leila: is when you're blinking
David: an eye blink. Boom, and just out of the room.
Leila: Before you blink, right.
David: Okay, so they were asked to draw a picture. And they drew
the exact same thing said Dr. Bouchard. He said he was left
flabbergasted by the twins results. So I heard I heard this
years and years and years ago, it's probably on some TV show in
the 90s. You know, like, Oh, amazing, wonderful mystery. And,
you know, some of the stuff can be checked on, like the wives
names and things like that, but some of the stuff you're like,
how much? How much of it was made up for a story or to get
famous? Or you know, yeah, but you know, it's an interesting
fun story. Regardless. Yeah. And that link will be in the show
notes as all links are
Leila: twins are such a weird concept to me. You're telling me
two people were living at home? Yep. You're telling me a shrimp
fried rice.
David: Shrimp fried rice. Yes. That reminds me on a movie
Little Rascals which was a reboot remake of an old TV show
back in like the black no way before me way before me. There's
a they're having like a carnival or something trying to raise
money if I recall correctly. And they have like a freak show. And
they're like come see the forefoot man eating chicken and
it's a one of the kids dressed up as you know, he's four foot
tall and he's eating chicken. forefoot man eating chicken, but
they weren't lying. You know, little deceitful. But you were
just saying that you can't believe that. There's two people
inside that one. Yeah,
Leila: I got room and they got room in the womb. And And
David: 2011 Researchers at Humberto Castillo Castillo of
University of Padova in Italy, studied 3d videos of twins in
the mother's womb. At 14 weeks of gestation, twins can be seen
reaching for each other by 18 weeks they touched each other
more often than they touch their own bodies. The researcher said
that kinematic analysis of the recordings revealed that the
twins made distinctive gestures towards each other. And whereas
gentle with the other twins, delicate high area, as they were
when they touched their own. That's weird, right? And that
was on as on HuffPost. The Huff Post link and it actually has
like a little video on the site of, of like the womb, inside the
womb, the two babies, like moving their hands and towards
each other and stuff like that. It's really neat. Neat stuff.
Yeah, so does Do you have any more information about the non
identical fingerprints?
Leila: Wait? I think I do. Yeah. Hold on. I gotta like, skim it
real quick. So I can give you a summary. Right? I fingerprints
are not solely based on Well, yeah, based on DNA, right. And
usually, identical twins have the same DNA. And I say usually,
because I got a point on that later. But fingerprints are not
solely based on DNA. They're just based on how your skin
skins. Yep.
David: By your skin. It can actually it's affected by how
the fluid in the womb moves around your fingers as they're
developing. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So it doesn't matter what
you do. I mean, your DNA. I don't know how much it has to do
with it. But any one of
Leila: the museums we went to in Tennessee. They got us.
David: They got us. They got us. Alcatraz east.
Leila: Yeah, I'm actually wearing the t shirt from it
right now. Yeah, you're right. They had a machine, and you
scanned your thumbprint on it. And it would print out a little
sheet for you with your thumbprint. And like, quote
unquote, what you did. Yeah,
David: like I was get arrested. I was a cat burglar.
Leila: I got a DUI, right.
David: It was just like a fun little criminal record. You
know, when you put your name on mine, like in my room somewhere?
Mine's on my computer desk in the house. Yeah. Mom says I'm
afraid I think yeah, yeah, this was a fun little souvenir. It
was free. It was a piece of veneer federal machine. That was
real neat. Okay, so Massachusetts, has the most twin
births of any state in America. For 4.5%?
Leila: How many percent is in the Massachusetts? No,
David: like, for every 100 births.
Leila: How many births are in the Massachusetts? How many
people are?
David: If we're going by percentages, it's irrelevant?
Well. It has the most per capita birth. Well, yeah, for per
capita is the thing there.
Leila: Because you can't just say, yeah, 10 twins were born in
Massachusetts. When there's, like 500 people in Massachusetts
and like 10 people in every other state.
David: That's how they really kitchen. That's how they're
really good. They'll be like, they'll be like, double check.
Yeah, it doubled or tripled,
Leila: was really just two and it's going for Yeah.
David: Well out of a million. Yeah. It's still exceedingly
rare. But no, it's per capita. So for every 100 live births,
there's 4.5 4.5 incidents of twins or reCAPTCHA.
Leila: First thing that pops in my head when someone says
capita, per
David: capita per reCAPTCHA. Yeah, find the stop sign. Find
the twins. We need you to really Hurry up on finding that stop
sign. We're not going to tell you why. But it has to do with
our self driving cars.
Leila: Quick has to do with training is AI quick.
David: Oh my gosh. That's another way to get you. It's all
about getting it these days. Connecticut and New Jersey
follow up with a to 2.5 or two 4.2 twins for every 100 births.
Researchers hypothesize that the multiple births occur in
affluent towns outside of Boston because they have a higher
concentration of wealthy women who have pursued careers these
women are more likely to attempt to have children at a later age
and seek reproductive assistance, which means that
they're going to get fertility medicines, which makes it when
when you take fertility medicine, it makes you more
likely to have twins, triplets, etc.
Leila: So some identical twins are actually mirror images of
each other. I know that didn't, okay would never be identical
twins heard of that one?
David: I know personally, I know, like two or three sets of
identical twins and I know one set of triplets. Yeah, there's
only Yeah. Yeah, I worked with one on
Leila: my nose had triplets. That's still not discovered yet.
What I haven't asked. They look the same. They had the same last
name. So I'm assuming Oh,
David: yeah. We got not fully sure we got Leila's yearbook in
and we were just skimming through and she's like wait a
minute, are they trip they're the same last name and they look
so similar. If
Leila: I don't really know if I want to ask no
David: even don't worry about it. Yeah, I think that they will
come. They look similar enough to me and they do have the last
name and they're in the same grade. Yeah, so I feel like
there
Leila: could not be you know,
David: yeah I didn't know about the mirror image identical twins
until I was reading the article on HuffPost and
Leila: they occasionally have reversed Oregon's which is crazy
to me. Oh, yeah.
David: It's weird when somebody has reversed Oregon's Yeah,
Leila: I know a couple. Twins in real life. Just not identical
twins. What do you call those?
David: Fraternal fraternal fraternal
Leila: frat fraternity?
David: Yes, like fraternity brotherhood. Can you brothers
Oh my god.
Leila: Oh my god, you
David: know Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker.
Leila: All right, I've never watched from don't attack me for
that, by the way. Okay. I've never watched Star Wars. I've
never watched Harry Potter. That might be a lie. I've never
watched Star Trek.
David: Okay, so let me give you the rundown. Okay, I'm not gonna
go through the stories or anything like that. But I'm
gonna say Star Wars is the movies are hit or miss. Some of
them are good. Some of them are not good. Star Wars. I never
really even cared too much about the story of Star Wars. Or the,
the universe I never delved into, like the extended universe
and all the world building. But I just, I really liked all the
spaceships and monsters and weapons. So that's what I
watched Star Wars for was the action sequences. Like all this
stuff about like, trade routes and, and Senate hearings and
stuff I've never really cared about. I was like, Come on, get
to the lightsaber fight. That's the cool part. So yeah, okay, so
that's Star Wars. And then Star Trek. Ah, different series
different movies. Same thing, either love them or hate them.
Next Generation in my opinion was the best but that was also
the one that was on when I was like a teenager. So
Leila: William Shatner in it. Know
David: what Star Trek? Star Trek The Original Series as William
Shatner? Yeah. Next Generation was on what I was talking about.
It's got John Luke Picard, which is played by Patrick Stewart.
The bald guy, old bald guy. He's really funny. And then it's got
Jordy, which is the guy from Reading Rainbow. Yeah. I can't
remember his day right now. If you say Patrick Stewart into the
internet, you'll you'll you'll see him you'll be like, Oh, I
know that guy. Oh, that dude. Right? Yeah. And then Harry
Potter. You can talk to your mom. Yeah,
Leila: I read the book, finally. So sound like a month ago.
Wasn't that great? Well, I should have read it earlier.
It's what I meant. It was a good good, good book. Good book.
David: I've never read it. I've watched the movies. The movies
are decent. I feel like a lot was left out left out of the
movies even without having read the book to know what the things
are. I feel like stuff was left out. But they're fun, fun
movies. Mothers of twins may live longer, or they may not. A
study published in the journal. The journal Proceedings of the
Royal Society focused on the population of women in the
1800s, Utah and found that the women who gave birth to twins
were very strong and healthy to begin with. Which means that
they're more fertile. So you might
Leila: live long or you might not write Vsauce music that's
the thing. Vsauce music Yeah.
David: It's probably copyrighted.
Leila: I don't think it is. come
David: after us. Twins. Go ahead.
Leila: I've had this one in the back. Oh, you were gonna do that
one. Yeah. Okay, so you know, like that one? Twin. What one
twin, though. Oh, Mary Kate. And Ashley. Yeah. The one Yeah.
David: You know, my mom yeah. From Full House. The
Leila: original house from Wanda vision. Who was that way?
David: No, that's their sister. She She is there other sister?
That's not a twin. Yeah, Elizabeth Olsen is Elizabeth
sister. Yeah, there's Mary Kate and Ashley, which are the twins
that were on full house. And then there's Elizabeth Olsen.
Who is the one that is in the Marvel movies. Oh, all right.
You know, Marvel Heroes, kind of like me. Play an agent Sanderson
on the Daredevil series of Marvel move to Android and an
iPhone app. It's a fitness app.
Leila: It's not that No, it's not
David: that I'm just gonna think it's cool that I wasn't a Marvel
project.
Leila: So they're not identical. Medicaid nationals, not
identical twins. They're fraternal.
David: The opposite. The genes run strong in that family. Look
at Elizabeth. She looks just like that. So they just don't
know you can tell them apart. If you look at them. Always, we've
always been able to when they were a kid, it was like, the
outfit and the hair and everything made them look the
same. And that's how they played the same character, you know?
Leila: Which I did not know that until I learned it. And I knew
it. I didn't know that until I knew it.
David: So, I was just talking about how the mothers of twins
may live longer. It's also more statistically What do you do? Oh
my gosh.
Leila: Factor nate.com On number 20. And there's this picture of
these two identical twins, I'm assuming with two identical
dogs, and it's scary.
David: They're like, good looking guys wearing the black
shirts. My arms are so on, you know, muscles. Yeah. And holding
a couple of cute puppies. It's like whoa, anyway. So I'm
talking about the mothers may live longer and tall women are
more likely to have twins also. So I feel like it's a fertility
thing. So like, the, the fertility of the mothers means
that they're more healthy and healthier people live longer. So
and then like being tall I don't know there's I feel like there's
just some genetic factors to being healthy and twins. You
know, that out? It's just me. Just saying, What are you just
randomly scrolling
Leila: through Instagram trying to find some
David: women who eat a lot of dairy are more prone to
conceiving twins. Oh, it's published in the Journal of
Reproductive Medicine found that women who eat more dairy
products may increase their chances of conceiving twins.
tested this comparing twin rates from vegan mothers and non vegan
mothers. Those who consume dairy were five times more likely to
Leila: rant. Oh,
David: wait, hold on. Hold on. Where's?
Leila: Don't know. It's over here. Start clicking crap. You
don't really gets my goat. Right? No, cool. Well, what did
you do? Oh, no.
David: Okay. That's censoring, is it? That's fact facts. Yeah,
you're right. No, no.
No, I don't want to be a robot. Hey, oh,
my gosh. That's must be on the first page. Yeah.
Leila: That's okay. It's
David: ducking.
Leila: There we go. Leila rent. will
cut it will cut. Yeah, well, totally. Normally gets my goat.
David: What really gets your goat Leila?
Leila: Parents have identical twins. Wait, yeah, I've seen
identical twins before. In the wild.
David: Out in the wild. Yeah, but they were like two now. If
anybody is a parent of an identical twins out there,
Leila's opinions are her own. They're my own. She can be
reached your best life mail at FunFactFriday.com. Yeah, please
email me, everybody. I would love everybody. Live your life
the way you want to live your life. Raise your kids the way
you raise your kids. I heard this rant before a little
Leila: show coming out who knows where. And I am not a fan of
people who dress up their identical twins as the same
person. Because oh my gosh, it really gets my goat. We were
somewhere getting something to eat one time. And this mom and
dad walk in with their two kids. And I look over and it's a copy
paste. same hairstyle, same haircut, same outfit, same
shoes, same socks, everything.
David: You have ugly, pleasant, equally
Leila: pleasant people. They seem very sweet to be around.
And I'm not commenting on anything except for the way that
she dressed and presented her children. Now I'm assuming it's
the mother's fault, but that's not that's pretty. That's pretty
David: I'm assuming it's the mother's fault.
Leila: I'm assuming it's the mother's fault. But so as most
things Oh,
David: shots fired
Leila: I'm just not a fan. They're not the same person.
They are two separate people. They're gonna grow up to live
two different lives. Two different wives. Two different
dogs named toy name toy. They're both gonna be Chainsmokers
Chevrolet's or whatever. But let them be their different people.
He's just gets my goat.
Unknown: Leila rant.
David: Anyway, I didn't read Yeah, I didn't mean to do it.
That's like, oh, my gosh.
Leila: Totally. Anyways, that's my rant for the day. Okay, I
have another one. You never know you So,
David: let's see. Oh, have you heard about conjoined twins?
Yeah, that is an interesting topic. Yeah, I remember in the
90s, there was like the a lot of like, ooh, mysterious world type
shows. And we've talked about it before, like, they talked about
Bermuda Triangle and UFOs, and all that fun stuff. And like,
for a while, they're conjoined twins, which back when I was a
kid, they would call them Siamese twins, which is not a,
you know, politically correct term. But conjoined twins were
all over the TV. Like, every time they found a new set of
conjoined twins, man, they got the reporters there. And they
had people interview them. And they talked about the doctors
and the doctors were like, well, there's nothing we can do to
separate them. It's just a super interesting topic to me. How
some of them are connected in different places. Some of them
it's almost like just one body but two heads. And then like it
brings up all these questions about you know, how do you do
certain things? How do you decide on certain things, it's
just so
Leila: every pedia interviewed? A couple, maybe a couple or
maybe just one conjoined twin. And they were pretty cool. They
seem very pleasant. Oh, but they seemed very, like they were
tired of each other.
David: Oh, yeah. I can imagine. I can imagine. So, let's see
what what do they say in here?
Leila: There was a conjoined. Wait, go ahead. We're thinking.
Yeah, there was a conjoined twin on Ruby Gloom. Oh, yeah.
David: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
Leila: I love he was one of my faves. Yeah, there's,
David: there's, there's like lots of episodes of like,
Leila: I've Ruby glumes hair right now.
David: I could totally go. Ruby glumes hair I got right here.
Where did you get RubyGems hair?
Leila: The hair salon. Oh, gotcha. Okay.
David: Yeah. When when Leila was at the salon, I did not want to
stay. I went to a yard sale. I went to a couple of yard sales.
And I got a lot of good stuff for like 10 bucks. I
Leila: know. But he always comes back from yard sales with so
much crap. And I'm like how much you can afford? And he's like
five bucks,
David: right? This one's yard sales or yard sales or for
getting rid of your stuff, making enough money to have
dinner and helping other people get stuff for real cheap. That's
what yard sales for. A couple of weeks ago, I went to a yard sale
and I got a limited edition. Legend of Zelda Nintendo two Ds
in perfect condition for $20. Amazing. Yeah, that was a find.
Leila: I might steal that one. No. Using mine. No. Use
David: your little white and blue. Oh, no, it's i Yeah, the
one the one. The Zelda one is a collector's item. We need to put
it in plastic and make sure that it stays good. It makes your art
state go to. Yeah, my only raising in price. Exactly. My
new 3ds XL is is already like, twice what I paid for it. The
black one. Yeah. Yes, they're just getting more and more
expensive. So I'm just gonna take care of them. I just bought
new batteries for them from Nintendo. So that we've got good
working batteries for decades to come. So if we ever do sell it,
or you know, whatever, if you want to play it again. And then
I got an interesting cartridge for the Nintendo 3ds That will
emulate backup copies of games that I physically own. Yeah,
cool. You have to physically own it if you're gonna play it on
emulator. So I only have the ones that I physically own on
that. That's neat stuff.
Leila: I just got a new leaf and wild world for 2d s 3ds.
David: Those still in played Animal Crossing games. Yeah.
Well, you also got Splatoon and haven't played that three.
Leila: Yeah, I need to play that. You got some summer News
last day. cried. Yeah,
David: she did. She came home crying. I did. She's gonna miss
school. She actually enjoys going hanging out for friends.
But I'm
Leila: very much an extrovert now. And it's terrible for like
spring break and crap. Because I can't see my friends. I'm gonna
invite my friends over. To hang out with them. It's fine. You
David: gotta help me finish putting the back porch together.
Yeah, we're 40% of twins invent their own languages? No,
Leila: no. Yeah.
David: I think probably 40% of like, really, really close
Leila: friends as a twin. I have to say we don't. I'm not a twin.
See only child when
David: you um, when I was a kid. We didn't make up our own
language. But we did find secret languages like Pig Latin, and
stuff like that to talk to each other and that we thought the
parents
Leila: didn't understand Latin for about a week and then it
just kind of gave up on it. We did
David: nonstop all the time. Sounds so dumb. It does. But it
was like, I don't know. We felt like we were doing something.
You know, like we're Yeah, super spies are But yeah, coming up
with a fun language we
Leila: could if I needed to. I wonder
David: what the statistic is for just siblings, but I also having
twins have
Leila: like things that I say that only my friends will
understand. Well, yeah, that's like
David: inside jokes and common references, which is fantastic
and like
Leila: it's another thing I'm gonna miss about my class. We
had a whole like, like, thing going and then summer yep,
David: that's that's life though it works. It'll be like that
with jobs too. You'll be in a job for a while and get to know
people their
Leila: jobs and jobs. That's all for now.
Okay, the oldest twins ever recorded were kin, NARC, Tia and
Jin, Connie, whose names literally translated to gold and
silver. They live to be 107 and 108 years old. Respectfully. Ah,
David: that was effective last year, though, for the for them
to live longer. Yeah, that would be I mean, if they had a close
relationship, and both twins
Leila: were born in night in 1892. In Narumi, village, Japan.
Wow.
David: Wow. Whenever I hear that somebody was born, like pre
1900s. Or I know, I'm always like the how accurate was a
birth records? You know, not that I'm doubting the birth
date? Well, no. But if you think about it, you only know that
you're five years old. When you start like thinking as a human
person. You only know that you're five because you're told
that you're five. Yeah. So like
Leila: what? You've read about that before? Yeah. Yeah, people
not knowing their birthday. And I would not know that I'm 14,
renew. I'm 14. This is a deep. Well, I
David: mean, you have like a continuity of of age. Yeah. Like
your Oh, my last birthday was my fifth birthday. So this is where
there's my sixth birthday. But if we told you
Leila: also, if you had no perception of time, you don't
know how many days have passed. You just don't know how to write
exactly
David: when you're three. If you don't know, there's no like, you
can't learn
Leila: how fast your frontal lobe is growing. Because how
would you? So you wouldn't know if you were over the age of 25?
David: Needles? No. Measuring tape. Oh, wow.
Leila: Oh my gosh.
David: So a popular myth surrounding twins is that they
have some kind of extrasensory perception or telepathic ability
that allows them to read each other's minds. There's no
genuine science. Can you read your mind?
Leila: When it's just myself, I could read my mind. Do it. I'm
so good at this. I know exactly what I'm thinking. What my twin
is thinking at all times.
David: I think the knowing what each other thinks is just a
result of being together all the time.
Leila: Yeah, having like a sister brother. I feel like we'd
think the same thing at the same time. Well, it's like Phaedra
and I.
David: Most situations, I know what she's thinking. What?
Leila: 500 years?
David: Yeah, we're we're coming up on our 500th anniversary.
Leila: Oh, congratulations. Congratulation. Congratulation,
I think it's funny.
David: 500 years feels like sometimes.
Leila: We will bowl your country sometimes. is they're talking
about something that happened when they were young and be
like, oh, so like 500 BC? Like
David: what you do is you ask him seven at once. Hey, so like
when you were like, like, you know, a teenager was it like
really scary when they invented the train?
Leila: was like No, but that's too serious. That's like serious
with a joke. We got a joke with a serious, you know,
David: well, you ask them things like No, I'm not gonna go into
the old jokes. No, I'm getting too old.
Leila: You are getting too old. On the show. Oh, me all about
it. We were off. But we're gonna say yeah, like me and my
friends. We have secret. Like, till episode we have to live
with they pretty much will think the same things at the same
time.
David: Yeah, yeah. Well, that's a it's a shared
Leila: does the generational thing, right? There's,
David: there's a shared culture, shared experiences. That's what
I was talking about with the twins. Like if you have all of
the same inputs, as somebody else, your outputs are also
going to be very similar. Yeah. And then you're also going to
feed each other's personalities and, you know, thought patterns
a lot. So you're gonna, you know, you're gonna react the
same in certain bunch of the same situations because of all
those reasons. There's another little spider Oh, no, I need to
get I need to spray out here. Studio. Yeah, I've got I've got
bug spray that I'm just gonna spray all the entrances with
it's really powerful stuff. Let's see what else Do we have
over how
Leila: much
David: terrifying twins? Oh, the talking about the shining? Oh,
the twins in The Shining were really really, really really,
really creepy. Yeah, wearing blue dresses. The Danny the
little kitten, the shining comes around the corner and he thinks
that they're alone in the hotel and then just sees this little
set of twins just stand on the end of the hall. And it's a very
liminal space type situation. Like if you watch him when he's
he's riding the tricycle thingy, the big wheel power, they will
thing when he goes around the corner. Like he's passing by
hotel rooms. And you can see the hotel room doors on like the
right and left of the screen. And then he turns right, and
then immediately turns right again. And then there's more
doors. So if you like try and visualize how that building is
laid out, those are doors to nowhere. You couldn't even like
it's like a flat wall with doors on so like and and that was just
one of the ways that it messed with your head without even
realizing it was messing with your head. Beyond the you know,
the really scary, obviously scary and jumpscares and things
like that. Yeah.
Leila: Well, I think I'm good. For fact,
David: I did have one more little set. It's actually two
it's two that are very similar.
Okay. And this is one of those coffin here. Land of twins, the
country, Brennan binnen. B, E, ni N, located in central Africa
has the highest rate of twin births in the world. With 20
27.9 sets born out of every 1000 births. Wait a minute. So that's
only 2.8. But Massachusetts has for Massachusetts.
Massachusetts, isn't the country is this twin verse. Oh, I
understand. It's not a I understand it's not a contract.
We're not talking about states. Here are my boundaries. Well, I
guess. Yeah. You can't really. Okay. You can't Hey,
Leila: okay. Can do a country stop and a state Okay. States
are all one country. The 50 What 15 ft. United States that the
colonies? Yes. They are all what country? So when you average?
Maybe not? And, you know, no, not Anywho?
David: What causes?
Leila: They're wrong? No,
David: I'm I am wrong. And I thought about it. I was like,
what if I even make it smaller, and like just go down to like
the neighborhood level. And there just happens to be, you
know, randomly. There's three women that move in and all three
of them have sets of twins. That's like a 100% rate
Leila: estimates and averages, statistics. Get my goat.
David: Leila, because
Leila: he gets my goat averages and statistics, not just
statistics in general, or charts. I hate charts. I hate
pie charts. I hate bar graphs. I hate all of it. But putting them
into calculators. Annoying. Looking at them annoying hearing
about them annoying. Making them annoying. Why do we still use
statistics and 2024 just count
David: Leila read? Just count statistics are important for
deceiving people.
Leila: I know. The government the government is using
statistics. They're listening to the government
David: that'd be a good good drop at the end of soda. We saw
that earlier. Yeah.
Leila: That's 39 seconds. Okay,
David: so Twin City. 39 minutes.
Leila: 39 seconds of the episode. Yeah, we
David: are. We are the town of Candido. Go Kansas. Go. Don't go
roll. In South America is the twin capital of the world with
8% of births between 1959 So what is it? I know right? No.
Okay.
Leila: I'm mad about it. Uh huh. I hate statistics. Exactly. I
hate twins.
David: Well, no, here's the thing is both of these stats
come from the same website? The same? Like there's two different
places.
Leila: Slash things slash 42 For you see meaning of life, the
universe and everything. Yeah, this one's I'm 42 Dude.
David: Here's the town verse. Yes, citizens believe that
there's a reason the reason for the unusually high The number of
twins in this place in South America is in the water. But DNA
test shows that it's because of high levels of inbreeding caused
an uptick with the twin gene. Yeah, so cool. I guess
inbreeding makes twins more likely don't. Yes. Don't just
didn't believe it. They're
Leila: 42 uncanny facts, twins.
David: Yep. 42 Dash uncanny fat dash pack. You know what, just
go to FunFactFriday.com. Click the show notes for this episode.
And there's a link to it. So there you go.
Leila: So we totally get all the money that goes to the fact that
oh, my gosh, we're having an ad for them right now. Well,
David: you know, this isn't an ad. These sites, I'm wondering
how much longer the ad sustained website model is going to last
because the ad blockers are so prevalent now. Because the way
it went is there was like, Oh, I've got one little banner ad on
my website. And I was like, Well, man, if I put three on
there, I'd make triple the money. And then people were like
ad blocker. And then they were like, Oh, I'll put sneaky ads
that get around the ad blockers. Oh, and then I'll stop you from
reading my site. And if you have an ad blocker, and then like
people are just going to eventually be like, I'm just not
going to go to any websites. Yeah, I'm just gonna go to
social media and
Leila: be an Amish. Yeah. Hey, hey, you know, moving mountains.
David: I'm doing it some goats. A couple of cows. Totally. And
Bingo. Bingo. Leila is hyped up. I think she had some some
cookies or something. Some ice cream I
Leila: drink a probiotic water oh
really hope that people are sniff stayed around. Oh.
David: All right, everybody boring episode. But
Leila: I'm glad you stick around to hear me talking about my
probiotic water.
David: That's amazing. Published was a good one.
Leila: That's pretty, pretty, pretty lame.
David: Do we have any support? We do. This is a value for value
podcast. What does that mean? That
Leila: means if you get value from us, it would be really cool
if you put some value back in. And that could be monetary that
could be time treasure or talent. Yep. Yes. Okay.
Three teas, a cheese. Tea.
Kind of like Fun Fact, Friday. But you just like take
David: it take off a little steam.
Leila: Can you put up top? So time treasure your talent. So
you could put on your time? Give back to us. Give me your time.
We see this treasure just by
David: listening. Listening. You're giving your time? Yeah.
And that's so cool. By spreading the word to other listeners.
You're bringing in somebody else who will spend their time talent
or treasure with us. So we always you know, just just
spread the word and only to people that you think will
actually enjoy the show. Don't be out there just like oh,
you're gonna listen to this show. It's you know, that you
were gonna hate us. Right? Because like if I go listen to
something and somebody recommended and they says the
greatest thing ever, and it's not just because they were
trying to help them grow the show it like, I don't know, I
just, I'm just like, you just wasted my time. Like Pinkerton
like pinker just don't understand why pinker did exist.
Okay, album.
Leila: It's not great. It's not Weezer doesn't feel like it
doesn't feel like Weezer. It's okay, though. It's okay. I'm a
big, I just threw out a lot of my dream fan. So we'll leave it
at that.
David: We did receive some monetary donations, our money
Leila: in 12 donation from Dr. Scott. It's our monthly monthly
sustaining donation, as well as $5 from Sherry Laurie on PayPal.
And then $10 from Stephen Graham. There
David: we go. We received those every month. Those aren't your
donation by the way. 12 And then in 1912 Oreos they make
drumsticks now ice cream treat. Instead of having chocolate
dipped in hot chocolate, it's dipped in Oreo. Yeah, gotta go.
We definitely think everybody who donates whether it be a one
time or a sustaining, we didn't receive any boosts or if you
wanna just send us like a cool little paper. Yeah, cards. I
haven't checked them at all. Like we have
Leila: a Pio box. If you go to our website.
David: It's up there somewhere. You've got to click, click the
donate to our website and click the donate button and it'll take
you and you can find it. It takes you the Mises media
donation pages. Yes. And described we'd love to see it,
love it. But then we received we didn't receive any boosts, which
is the modern podcasting way of sending sending value.
Leila: You send boost message with it. Yeah.
David: You don't want to Instagram but we did receive
some some streaming sets. Now one thing I've noticed with the
streaming sets To some people, I can tell that they listen a lot
longer like you can see because it streams per minute that we
get X amount of sets per minute x being whatever the the user
chooses. And some of the some of the people I only see like one
or two. Now, you may only be listening for one or two
minutes, and we appreciate you. But if you're meaning to send
per minute for the entire show, oh, no, my lid to my probiotic
water. I just wanted to make sure that if you're intending us
to get where to go more, or intending us to get SATs the
entire time, you're listening, and they're not getting through
to us. So I'm only getting like three or four minutes worth for
some people. And like I said, I appreciate it if that's what
you're intending to do. But I wanted to make sure that the
like, one of the podcast apps isn't messing up. So we can send
a bug report or something like that. So did you drop your lid?
I do.
All right, everybody. Just check the show notes for all of our
information there and you can find out the facts that we
skipped over. Because they just didn't sound good enough to say
on the air. Or didn't bring up a funny joke that we could tell.
Yeah. Everybody have a fantastic weekend. Summer has begun here.
Wear sunscreen, wear sunscreen. If I can offer one piece of
advice
Leila: for the future. sunscreen would be it
David: thank you for joining us.
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