Good luck finding a weirder story than this one.

[Bleacher Creature]

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[Turbineguy]

1. Takes all kinds

to make a World.

[True Dough]

2. Might want to get a

paternity test done there, Jeremy.

[unblock]

4. Might not be very informative

[PoliticAverse]

3. I wonder if they have any mirrors in the house. n/t

[unblock]

5. I was gonna say, it's just one family, a mirror, and a very gullible reporter

[Throck]

6. How do they sort socks on laundry day?

[Demovictory9]

7. You win the weird story of the day

[3Hotdogs]

8. Chick on the left is a hottie. The one on the right, not so much.

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Yes, Harold, its sarcasm..... actually, a poor attempt at humor. The humor part is about one chick being more attractive than the other. But the point, they are twi.... aw forget it.

[PoliticAverse]

17. I love you, however I hate you...

[3Hotdogs]

30. Nice.

[Celerity]

38. Confuse The Androids Part 2

[PatSeg]

35. Ha, ha, ha!!!

[Tommymac]

41. Disagree. The woman on the right is the hottie.

But the guy on the left is the real deal.

[Skittles]

9. creepy

[misanthrope]

11. Certainly I'm not the only one

whose initial suspicion was, "There's some swapping going on."

[Mosby]

13. Why bother?

[pansypoo53219]

12. i have married siblings marrying siblings in my ancestry.

[dflprincess]

15. I do too

My great grandfather's brother married My great grandmother's sister. No twins involved though.

[Ameri Canadian]

14. Let me guess

The children will be home-schooled.

[Disaffected]

16. Hmmm

It appears they do everything together.

[LearnedHand]

18. Actually (creepy fundy look aside)

It’s both sort of groovy and a twins researcher’s dream. Twins of twins are a genetic cornucopia.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. And if anyone ever needs a kidney, bone marrow, or a chunk of a liver, they are all set...

[SunSeeker]

19. Creepy.

[Warpy]

20. Recombinant DNA

means those two boys probably aren't any more identical than other cousins are, although the mitochondrial and Y-DNA will be the same in both.

[Mme. Defarge]

21. What's a little incest?

It’s all in the family.

[left-of-center2012]

22. Explain how they are cousins and brothers?

[Mariana]

32. They aren't brothers.

They have the same DNA profiles as brothers would, because both children have genetically identical parents.

[left-of-center2012]

34. This confused me ...

Frim the OP:

"Although technically cousins, the boys are genetically brothers."

[Mariana]

37. A DNA test would show them as having the same parents

because their parents are genetically identical. There's no way for a DNA test to determine which boy came from which couple.

[Shoonra]

23. It's not incest ...

Incest is mating with a blood relative. It's not incest to marry a sister-in-law.

[Chicago1980]

24. Sister wife indeed...

[burrowowl]

26. Interesting, I hope they get studied.

[JohnnyRingo]

27. How is this not a reality show yet?

I would think they've had offers considering the other crap they put on.

[JI7]

29. I would watch at least the first episode if they did a reality show

[Tommy Carcetti]

31. Well, there's this one:

[Pachamama]

33. Poor kids might misidentify who is mom and dad or aunt and uncle...

Although I don’t think the kids will be mixed up….

Looking at the picture, the children are not identical even if they have the DNA of siblings.

The genes expressed are not the same - just as I don’t look the same as my siblings.

I do find this however a fascinating story from a genetics standpoint.

[maxrandb]

36. "Many, many years ago, when I was 17...

I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be,

She had a grown up daughter, who has hair of red,
My father fell in love with her, and soon they both were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife,
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My son has thus become a brother-in-law to dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.

For if he was my uncle, then of course he was half-brother,
to the windows grown up daughter, who of course was my stepmother."

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Don't remember the rest, but my dad used to sing a 10 minute version of the above song.

[Emile]

39. This is a winner for weirdest story of the day!

[kairos12]

40. Their mini van is a clown, no, clone car.

[Blue Owl]

42. I'm getting a hankering for some Doublemint gum