I wasn’t aware this really happened.
A pair of twins born in Poland have different fathers, Polish media reported Monday — in apparently only the seventh such case in the world.
The twins’ mother became pregnant while she was having relations with her husband and also having an affair, reported broadcaster TVN 24.
The woman, whose name was not given, filed for a divorce after giving birth to the twins, one male and one female.
The woman later conducted tests to prove her husband was not the father of either child.
The tests showed, however, that the husband was the father of the baby boy, while the other man was the baby girl’s father.
Such rare cases are possible when a woman produces two eggs and has sex with another partner while she’s ovulating, local media reported.
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For the Sake of Science 
Beyond snickering, we care because of ?
My mother saw this when working in London. It’s most obvious when the children are of different races (the mothers she saw were, I believe, prositutes). I always find it entertaining whe the media show the “genetic miricle” twins on TV born looking like different races and assume its a recessive gene…no mention of a genetic test. Yet when I mention this to people many don’t seem to realize how possible, and actually common, this is in humans.
OK, maybe some of those TV cases really are from the same parent…but I wouldn’t put money on it.