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“Twin sisters and best friends can add giving birth to the list of life experiences they have shared. Amy Gilbert and Allison Oliverio, both 25-years-old, were only a wall apart at Henry Ford Macomb hospital while both gave birth for the first time and the babies, just 14 minutes apart. “I could hear Amy, she could hear me and we were just like knocking.” Dr. Timothy Kim was back and forth delivering both babies. “They were kind enough to put rooms next to each other, so not so much running. I’ve been doing this for 12 years and I never heard of twins having a baby on the same day,” said Dr. Kim. Amy gave birth to baby Claire and Allison gave birth to baby Garrett. The sisters both married their high school sweethearts six months apart to the day. They say they didn’t plan on getting pregnant at the same. The babies were not only 14 minutes apart, but also a pound and an inch apart.” w/ photo + video

“The competition is the brainchild of 21-year-old John-Clark Levin of Ojai, Calif., who set a handshaking record in May 2009 while attending Claremont McKenna College. He and a college friend shook hands for 10 hours, 10 minutes, 10 seconds. “We did it with very little prep, more or less on a whim,” Levin told AOL News. “We thought it’d be good to break a Guinness record and raise money for cancer in the process.” The following September, while their record was still in the review process with Guinness, Levin learned that a team of Australian chums bested their record with a time of 12 hours, 34 minutes, 56 seconds. They, too, shook on behalf of a charity. Determined to win back their record, the Claremont McKenna team roared back a month later with a 15-hour, 15-minute, 15-second shake. According to Guinness, that record was also broken. It currently lists the record as 15 hours, 30 minutes, 45 seconds, achieved by Matthew Rosen and Joe Ackerman of the U.K., on Nov. 21, 2009. Levin says a team from Nepal also broke their record. Rather than allowing the global one-upsmanship to continue, Levin decided to extend his hand to all the teams — along with a few new contenders — for a winner-take-all competition.” w/ photos