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My aunt and uncle are named Jim and Linda... I think the universe likes those names together lol
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I wonder if everyone commenting just happens to know the same Jim and Linda...
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Jim squared
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my uncle Lim married the liquor and adopted the name Jahey
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Holy shit my mom’s sister is Linda and she married a Jim. I also have an Aunt Linda and Uncle
Jim!
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Holy shit my next door neighbors names are Jim and Linda
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r/glitch_in_the_matrix
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I keep thinking that I've accidentally highlighted the thumbnail and it's bothering the shit out of
me.
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Woah, that's actually pretty hilarious, and those odds must be absolutely astronomical that this
would ever happen. I've heard about this, and it's absolutely astonishing.
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I think this is what most people call "genetics" at work. It works on more levels than just how
big your nose is going to be. It creates your brain too. It does not surprise me they were
inclined towards the same hobbies. What is odd is the names of the women they picked. But
hey, get 1000 twins and you will eventually find a sample even at those odds.
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They *actually found a set of separated twins where they grew up and happened to install
a circular bench surrounding a tree in their respective lawns.
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Love Actually!
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And besides these cherrypicked similarities, they each had about a million details in their lives
not in common, but never let a basic understanding of statistics get in the way of a good
anecdote.
Take two random people of the same age and living in the same culture. Measure a few
thousand properties of each of them and compare. Pick all the ones they have in common and
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Lol saying it so matter of factly. Those similarities are not cherry-picked, and adding all of
the things they don’t have in common to this wouldn’t make the outstanding parts any less
amazing. You need more soul
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I can’t believe they both married the same woman and then did it again with another. How did
they miss each other for so long?
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The fact that they were twins made it easier to keep from being found out.
They just spent a lot of time in the garage.
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John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald
shot JFK from a warehouse and fled to a theater.
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There is an entire list of comparisons that have been drawn in terms of Lincoln and Kennedy.
Most of them are coincidence, some are surreal, some are straight bs. But the one major eerie
coincidence that people don’t seem to bring up as much is that John Wilkes Booth’s brother
saved Abraham Lincoln’s son in a train yard in Jersey City, NJ before the assassination. That
one is pretty incredible.
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Yes it is actually true. Don’t have the sauce handy but Lincoln’s son had stumbled off a
train station platform and Edwin Booth pulled him back up. The young Lincoln even
knew who his savior was.
Edwin Booth was one of the finest Shakespearean actors this country ever produced
and was enormously famous. There is a great movie about him called The Prince of
Players.
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Go more into the JFK/Lincoln Comparisons and tell me it’s all coincidental
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It actually is, if you look hard enough you can find a ton of coincidences in everything.
Vsauce has a great video on it and even touches the lincoln jfk thing
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No way Lincoln and JFK were both presidents too, you can't explain that coincidence.
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Good enough.
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I knew a guy whose twin found him. They subscribed to the same hunting magazine, which they
read back to front. One went to East Jefferson County High and one went to West Jefferson
County High. (When the looking twin was following a lead and looking through high school
yearbooks, the guy I knew had missed picture day that year). Their listings were in adjacent
columns in the phone book (both adopted by families with German sounding names). The guy I
knew was never told he'd been adopted, and wham! He gets a twin brother and a half sister and a
whole new "biological" family in one day.
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Maybe not, but the people who believe there’s no such thing as free will would. A common
assertion is that, if you created a facsimile of them with the same genre and atoms, they’d
make the exact same choices because ALL of our actions are determined by instinct and
biomechanics alone.
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The name Linda is not encoded in human genome. And you’re not going to convince me
otherwise. I agree with instinct and bio mechanics. But the Linda to Betty twist is definitely
a conspiracy lol
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If the twins had been swapped into one anothers family, the same story may have still
unfolded...
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If they're the guys I'm thinking of, what I saw is the weirdest common trait was that they both
mail ordered a particular Swedish toothpaste.
I believe one was raised by an Italian family in New York in the other by a Jewish Family in
Florida. So culturally, they had very little in common.
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Twin entanglement.
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Twintanglement.
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Bilocation
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If you like this story, you might also like this one. Not so much coincidences, but I watched the
documentary on Netflix and it was quite interesting to watch this unfold.
Twinsters is a 2015 documentary film which covers the true-life story of identical twin sisters,
separated at birth, discovering each other on-line, meeting, confirming their identity with a
DNA test, and exploring aspects of their background together.
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CTRL C + CTRL V
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Pfft... Anyone with enough dos would use ctrl-insert and shift-insert.
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My dad has two brothers. All three of them have a kid born on Valentine’s Day. Different years
tho.
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identical twins reared apart tell us so much is hardcoded into us. We aren't as malleable as we
think we are.
Here is a good talk by Nancy Segal who ran the minnosota twin study.
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r/theydidthemath ?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHhpufKRjs
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entanglement
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Give a monkey and a typewriter enough time and you’ll get shakespear.
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epigenetics
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There were two women (not twins) that were both given up for adoption from the same mother
who both had the same name.
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Is this another set of twins, along with the film three perfect strangers twin study?
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The Linda and Betty part of this show how little any of this has to do with genetics, because it is
hard to believe that people choose partners because of names or that if they do that choice is
somehow influenced by shared genetics. Lots of Jims, Lindas and Bettys in that generation. Lots of
security guards who woodwork as a hobby. It’s a cool coincidence but that coincidence likely has
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little to do with the fact that they were twins. Probably has way more to do with the fact they
were both adopted children at the same time.
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Just remember that Linda was the most popular female name during the 1950s and both Betty
and Linda were in the top 10 during the 1940s (presumably when these women were born), and
James (Jim is the short form) was the most popular male name in the 40s and 50s.
Carpentry was also something a lot of boys/men in that era were interested in or at least had
some working skill in.
There are a lot of similarities for sure, but when you break some of them down, you can find
reasonable explanations for it. I believe both were smokers, but so was virtually everyone in those
days.
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Look up some studies done on Twins. Really fascinating stuff and this has happened more than
once.
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Imagine how different they would have both ended up if they grew up together, changing little
things about themselves to express individualism.
Like they would be named Jim and Tim, had first wives named Linda and Cindy, and second wives
named Betty and Greta, named their sons "James" and "Timothy", dogs "Toy" and "Roy", chain-
smoked Salems and Newports, drove Chevys and Fords, were a sheriff deputy and a city cop,
vacationed on the Gulf and Atlantic beaches in Florida.
So, the same but a little different, probably.
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