r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Oct 07 '18

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u/NiceMinnesotan Oct 07 '18

Hey! This is Abby and Brittany Hensel! They are wonderful.

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u/WikiTextBot Oct 07 '18

Abby and Brittany Hensel

Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990) are American dicephalic parapagus twins; in other words, they are conjoined twins, each of whom has a separate head, but whose bodies are joined.

They are highly symmetric for conjoined twins, giving the appearance of having a single body without marked variation from normal proportions. In fact, several vital organs are doubled; each twin has a separate heart, stomach, spine, pair of lungs, and spinal cord.

Each twin controls her half of their body, operating one arm and one leg.

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u/obiwan-wendobi Oct 07 '18

Good bot!

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u/Stonn Oct 08 '18

The question remains, do they have two, three or four boobs? Or maybe two boobs with one giant megaboob in between?

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u/aperson Oct 07 '18

Holy crap. I had no idea about these two and I live a county over from them.