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Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel have cleared up just how their bodies work - and people can’t believe it.

The twins rose to fame after being given their own TLC TV show, Abby & Brittany, and were featured on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Now both aged 34, the twins were born with a condition called dicephalic parapagus.

They now work as teachers in Minnesota, and Abby married her husband Josh Bowling in 2021.

Taking to TikTok, the twins shared a video showing how the structure of their conjoined bodies functions, captioning the post "New year, same us".

It explains that the twins have their own distinct upper body systems, along with graphics showing how it works.

The twins have separate heads, brains and spinal cords and two hearts which are part of a shared circulatory system.

The video reveals that the hearts both pump blood through the same system, so "the actions of one can directly impact the other," and they also have the

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