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Morning Start: There are more twins being born now than ever before

Your morning start for Wednesday, April 29, 2020
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(Natalia Cuevas-Huaico - 麻豆精选)

Get out your rain boots, there鈥檚 a real chance of showers today.

Fun Fact of the day:

There are more twins now than ever before.

You might think twins are a rarity, but they鈥檙e actually becoming more common than ever. 鈥淔rom about 1915, when the statistical record begins, until 1980, about one in every 50 babies born was a twin, a rate of 2 percent,鈥 writes Alexis C. Madrigal of The Atlantic.

鈥淭hen, the rate began to increase: by 1995, it was 2.5 percent. The rate surpassed 3 percent in 2001 and hit 3.3 percent in 2010. That means one out of every 30 babies born is a twin.鈥

Scientists believe this trend is due to the fact that older women tend to have more twins, and women are choosing to start families later. Fertility treatments such as in-vitro fertilization likely also play a role.

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