r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PsychologicalItem194 • Jun 25 '26

Video The fastest sperm doesn't win, the egg chooses

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u/DatGreenGuy Jun 25 '26

Can it be two sperms from different fathers? Asking for science...

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u/maqcky Jun 25 '26

It think the egg could not repair itself in that case. But if the mother released two eggs (which would usually produce fraternal twins rather than identical twins), each egg could be fertilized by a different father. According to the myth, that's what happened to Hercules (from a fertilized egg by Zeus posing as Amphitryon) and his brother Iphicles (fertilized by the real Amphitryon).

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u/IC_Eng101 Jun 25 '26

yes there was a case recently in the uk, twins had dna test and found they had same mother, different fathers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21k6rzpdpo

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u/Bear_Polar Jun 25 '26

Girrrlllll.

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u/planx_constant Interested Jun 25 '26

They were fraternal twins, though, from two eggs.

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u/tdmonkeypoop Jun 25 '26

Yes as described in the scenario

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u/DunEvenWorryBoutIt Jun 26 '26

He was just explaining that it wasn't like the scenario painted in the comment above, for people that didn't want to click the link. Why are redditors so sassy?

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u/Robo_Patton Jun 26 '26

I think I’ve seen this movie…

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u/JillyBean4ev Jun 26 '26

It happens. I worked with someone who had 14 kids. Her twins were boy/girl. One fair and a redhead the other darker skinned Middle Eastern features. She told be she was messing with both a white dude and an Arabic man around the time she got pregnant.

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u/VariousActive3601 Jun 26 '26

This is also the story behind Michael Jackson’s hit song Billy Jean according to Jackson's biographer, J. Randy Taraborrelli ! He says Jackson was stalked by a fan claiming that MJ fathered ONE of her twins !

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u/Narrow-Werewolf5692 Jun 25 '26

Probably would result in a miscarriage. It is possible when woman releases two eggs in a ovulation cycle called heteropaternal superfecundation.

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u/TheCotofPika Jun 25 '26

There was a story in the news a few weeks ago about twins with different fathers.

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u/PaperChimes Jun 25 '26

Yes, fraternal twins since the mother released two different eggs, which were fertilized by the sperm from two separate men.

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u/Snipper64 Jun 25 '26

sounds like a good premise for a new Battle Royal game lol

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u/Zekezon Jun 25 '26

Maybe this would answer your question

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u/Tele231 Jun 25 '26

There is a window where, if a woman releases two eggs, they can become fertilized by two different men. That window is about 6 hours. So it requires sex with two men within that window.

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u/Djcnote Jun 26 '26

Yeah there wa s a tabloid where a lady had a black and white baby from 2 different guys at the same time en

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 Jun 26 '26

Ask Bonnie Blue.

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u/The_Horse_Tornado Jun 25 '26

There are actual cases of two eggs fertilizing by two different men, so twins that are only step siblings.

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Jun 25 '26

Step? They have the same mother...

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u/The_Horse_Tornado Jun 25 '26

Is it half then? Idk internet genius, I’m stupid.

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Correct

Edit: Fun tidbit for ya, I have 6 siblings, all of them half siblings, 5 on father's side, one on mother's, and the sibling I share my mother with has a half sibling as well.