Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 09, 2015
July 08, 2015
July 10, 2015
Transcript:
There are more museums in the United States than Starbucks and McDonald's combined! England's Steve Easton, who suffered from a chronic stuffy nose, sneezed out the tip of a toy dart that had been in his nostril for 44 years! Twins occur about once in every 75 births- every 400 births for identical twins. Triplets once every 7500 births... And quadruplets once in every 620,000 births.
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When my twins were born in the middle 1970’s I learned that about 1 birth in 100 resulted in twins. I wonder where Mr. Ripley’s minions got their 1 in 75. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/health/research/twin-births-in-the-us-like-never-before.html?_r=0 says from 1980 to 2009, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate of twin births rose 76 percent. Now about one in 30 babies born in the United States is a twin.