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Staples Makes Guinness Book for Record Number of Twins
The Staples High School Class of 2014 has reportedly been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for its 16 sets of twins.
"When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, 'Look, twins!'" - Rodney Dangerfield
The Class of 2014 has reportedly been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for its 16 sets of .
According to a report on ABC News, SHS student Luke Foreman and his twin sister, Meghan, knowing that there was a preponderance of twins in their graduating class, one day decided to count them up.
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“Right from the beginning I knew we had a lot of twins in our grade, but it didn’t strike me as unusual until I counted all the twins we had," Foreman said in the report.
When Foreman discovered — with some help from the school administration — that the Class had a total of 16 sets of twins, he checked out the Guinness Book and realized that SHS had set a new record.
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The 16 sets of twins twins account for 8.42 percent of the 380-student Staples High School class of 2014, according to the report. That's more than four times the average in the U.S. population, which stands at around 2 percent.
For more, check out the ABC News report.
