Wednesday, April 7, 2010

twins and birthdays

I read in the newspaper that today is the birthday of identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber (most famous as professional football players). Which got me thinking about the births of other sets of twins - how many are born on opposite sides of midnight? Then they'd have different birthdays... how would those be celebrated?

And to keep going further: how many are born in different months, the first being born on April 30th and the second on May 1st, for example? How rare has a twin been born on February 29th of a leap year, and the other either on February 28th or March 1st? There is the possibility of having been born in different years (a New Years Eve baby and a New Years baby), different decades, different centuries, different millenniums - even if they were just minutes apart!

Just wondering.

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