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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Why don't we refer to twins and triples as a litter? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Technically they're littermates...

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[–] omgarm@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Identical twins should be called clones.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're not clones though. For one, a clone has one parent and it's dna is identical to it's parent. Twins have two parents and their dna is only identical to each other.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So they’re copies of each other?

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

redundancies

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

RAID array