Kicker: Seeing double on picture day

NICK EICHER, HOST: Teachers in the town of Inverclyde, Scotland are seeing double. 17 sets of twins are about to start primary school.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Twins galore!

EICHER: Yes it is. But believe it or not, that’s not even the school district record. That was set eight years ago when 19 sets of twins started primary school.

AUDIO: Smile! Cheeese!

Yep, saying cheese for the class photoshoot in their uniforms. Reporters from all over the U.K. showed up to see the twins phenomenon for themselves.

And it’s quite a phenomenon. There in Inverclyde, the rate of multiple births is about 50 percent higher than the rest of Scotland.

This year’s twin class increases the count to a total in the past decade of 147 sets of twins—earning Inverclyde the nickname: Twin-verclyde.

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