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posted January 04, 2012 01:37 PM            

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For a long time scientists had a theory that left handed people might have started out as twins in the womb. Their rationale was that in a set of twins one tends to be right handed and one left handed. Genetic and nurturing factors can also affect handedness, but they can't explain it completely in many cases. Maybe all lefties were the result of only one twin surviving the cage fight that is fetal development.

It wasn't until ultrasounds, and fearless cameras capable of surviving the uterus, that scientists discovered their hunch was right. Sort of. They were right in the fact that most lefties were once twins but they didn't go far enough. Scientists now think that a ridiculous one in eight people started out as two peas in a pod. Of course, only about one in 70 people actually is a twin. So what happened to your twin? You killed it and then absorbed it into your body. Yeah, those stories of adults finding teeth in their shoulder? Not urban legends.

Why Did I Do That?!
Because you're evil.

Not really. Chances are you were just the healthier fetus. Or you hogged all the blood if you shared a placenta. Or you grew faster and literally left your sibling no womb at the inn. If multiple pregnancies are really as common as they now seem, we evolved to be this way for a reason. Trying out two fetuses to see which one is more likely to survive is a pretty good plan evolutionarily. Unfortunately, carrying twins is very dangerous for the mother, meaning that our best bet as a species was to let one twin kill off the other early on in development. Just another reason lefties are a sinister, sinister group of people.

[Latin: sinister means left ]

Source: Cracked.com

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posted January 04, 2012 01:49 PM            

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I'm a MURDERER!

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posted January 04, 2012 01:53 PM            

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Sounds like Makoto Shishio was right after all... Damn you Battōsai!

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posted January 04, 2012 03:27 PM            

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Frozen Queen
Excellent information!
I have read reports saying that it can be in up to 25% of pregnancies start out as twins.
I myself have been pregnant 26+times and some were twins until the 11th. week.
Doctors will often not tell the mother she is carrying twins until after the 12th. week, when chance of the death of one twin and re-absorption is less likely.
No sense in causing pointless grief.
Actually one does not kill the other twin.
More often than not the other twin is not attached properly to the placenta and or is too deformed already to survive.
As to bones, hair, teeth in people in odd places;
those are known as dermoid cysts and do not have to be related to twinning.
People with a condition known as Familial Polyposis often have such cysts or tumors.

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posted January 04, 2012 03:32 PM            

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Vanishing twin

A vanishing twin, also known as fetal resorption, is a fetus in a multi-gestation pregnancy which dies in utero and is then partially or completely reabsorbed by the mother or twin.

The occurrence of this phenomenon is sometimes referred to as twin embolisation syndrome or vanishing twin syndrome (VTS), since the 1980s when twin pregnancies were made visible early on by means of ultrasound.

Occasionally, rather than being completely reabsorbed, the dead fetus will be compressed by its growing twin to a flattened, parchment-like state known as fetus papyraceus.

If the fetus is absorbed completely, there are usually no further complications to the pregnancy, other than first trimester vaginal bleeding. However, if the event occurs in the second or third trimester, serious complications may include premature labor, infection due to the death of the fetus, and hemorrhage. Even at the end of the pregnancy, a low-lying fetus papyraceus may block the cervix and require a cesarean to deliver the living twin.

The vanished twin can die owing to a poorly implanted placenta, a developmental anomaly that may cause major organs to fail or to be missing completely, or there may be a chromosome abnormality incompatible with life. Frequently the twin is a blighted ovum, one that never developed beyond the very earliest stages of embryogenesis.

Frequency

According to Charles Boklage, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Brody School of Medicine and adjunct professor of biology at East Carolina University, vanishing twins occur in up to one out of every eight multifetus pregnancies and may not even be known in most cases.

Patricia J. Sulak, M.D., has reported similar findings: "In reporting 300 early pregnancies evaluated by means of ultrasound noted 21 twins, one triplet, and one quadruplet. Only three pairs of twins survived to term (85.6% loss of the second twin), whereas the triplet pregnancy evolved into a normal twin gestation, and the quadruplet pregnancy reported here also evolved into a singleton gestation. Additionally, the triplet pregnancy reported here also evolved into a pregnancy diagnosed by means of ultrasound that evolved into a twin gestation. These very high resorption rates, which cannot be explained on the basis of the expected abortion rate, again suggest intense fetal competition for space, nutrition, or other factors during early gestation, with frequent loss or resorption of the other twin(s)."

Since it is hypothesized that in some instances vanishing twins leave no detectable trace at birth or before, it is impossible to say for certain how frequent the phenomenon is. It was hypothesized for a long time that non-right-handed and non-left-handed individuals may be the survivors of "mirror image" identical twinning.

"Vanishing" twins are frequently encountered in pregnancies created as a result of IVF. Ultrasound scans are taken very early in these pregnancies (5-8 weeks), so that, where a multiple conception has occurred, it frequently happens that more than one amniotic sac can be seen in early pregnancy, whereas a few weeks later there is only one to be seen and the other has "vanished".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin

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posted January 04, 2012 03:38 PM            

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Dermoid cyst http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermoid_cyst

Teratoma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma

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posted January 04, 2012 04:29 PM            

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I'm aware of dermoid cysts and teretomas but the abov information was lifted as such from Cracked.com which has a penchant for stating facts in a very tongue-in-cheek manner

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posted January 04, 2012 05:42 PM            

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Great topic!
Fascinating!

Thanks for posting!

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posted January 04, 2012 07:00 PM            

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LOOL, cracked is great..but sometimes it can be very annoying.....show me the scientific fact i killed my twin and maybe i'll believe cracked a little more

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posted January 05, 2012 12:32 AM            

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this thread makes me think of bart and his "evil" twin hugo .gotta love the simpsons ! thanks frozen queen and lexx , for the chuckle

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posted January 05, 2012 03:28 AM            

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i think in this case we're talking identical twins, cause im pretty sure that less than 25% of women ovulate twice during a single cycle..

either way i was fascinated by this..

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posted January 12, 2012 05:04 PM            

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I am left handed.. I killed my twin.!

There, I've said it now..

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posted January 12, 2012 06:55 PM            

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Originally posted by starfox:
I am left handed.. I killed my twin.!

There, I've said it now..

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posted January 12, 2012 07:08 PM            

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Originally posted by Venus:
i think in this case we're talking identical twins, cause im pretty sure that less than 25% of women ovulate twice during a single cycle..

either way i was fascinated by this..

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You don't need to ovulate twice to produce twins; identical twins are formed when a fertilised ovum splits thus they have the exact same DNA and this twinning is what scientists think is more common than previously thought

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posted January 13, 2012 01:55 AM            

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^exactly thats why i said they mean identical twins that are a result of a single fertalized ovum and and not non-identical twins

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posted January 13, 2012 04:23 PM            

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^exactly thats why i said they mean identical twins that are a result of a single fertalized ovum and and not non-identical twins

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Wow, my bad!

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posted March 28, 2014 12:25 PM            

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Interesting!

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posted March 28, 2014 09:11 PM            

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Interesting. To think that I could have had a twin <mind blown>

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posted March 31, 2014 02:11 PM            

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Don't think I believe it.

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posted April 01, 2014 06:23 AM            

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What if you're ambidextrous?

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posted April 01, 2014 01:23 PM            

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I know a lot of murderers!

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posted April 01, 2014 09:39 PM            

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I think there could be right-handed twin survivors as well. Why should lefty's always dominate?

I also think there can be left-handers that were never twins. Why the discrimination? Think about it...

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posted April 02, 2014 11:49 AM            

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Its those left handed scissors I finally got a grab on! KILLING FOR THE WIN!!!!! MWAHAHAHAA

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