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TIL that there is a village in Brazil where the twinning rate is 10% compared to the global 0.4%. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted twin “studies” at Auschwitz, relocated to Southern Brazil in 1963 leading to a theory that he experimented on locals causing an abnormally high twin ratio.

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