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Tuesday 30 December 2014

The World's Oldest-living Conjoined Twins Celebrate Their 63rd Birthday At Disney World


The Ohio twins, who are joined at the waist and face each other, celebrated their longevity milestone playing at Florida's amusement parks. Ronnie and Donnie Galyon beat the previous record holders, Italian twins Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, who were born in 1877 and lived to be 63. Since they were kids (bottom-right) , the twins supported their family by performing in carnival sideshows in the U.S. and circuses throughout Central and South America.


Ronnie and Donnie Galyon may be the world's oldest conjoined twins, but when they celebrated their 63rd birthday recently, they decided to keep it young — with a trip to Florida's amusement parks.
The Galyon twins, of Ohio, unofficially reached the milestone the day after they turned 63 on Oct. 28.
They beat out the previous record held for more than seven decades by Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, who were born in Italy in 1877 and lived to be 63.
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Meet Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, the world's unofficial oldest-living conjoined twins. They celebrated their 63rd birthday in October
Meet Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, the world's unofficial oldest-living conjoined twins. They celebrated their 63rd birthday in October
The Galyons (pictured above in July) beat out the previous record holders,  Italian twins Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, who were born in 1877 and lived to be 63. The Toccis held the record for more than 70 years

Months earlier, on July 5, they lived one day longer than Chang and Eng Bunker, another set of conjoined twins who claimed the world's second-place spot in longevity.
They celebrated that milestone with a block party in their hometown of Beavercreek, just outside of Dayton.


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