The words "identical twins" may conjure images of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Fred and George Weasley, or even the little girls in The Shining (who are actually very normal-looking these days). You probably think of identical twins as looking literally the same as one another, but that's not the case with adorable identical twins Amelia and Jasmine.

Libby Appleby is white, while her partner Tafadzwa Madzimbamuto is black, so it could be expected that their kids would have complexions somewhere in between theirs. Instead, they wound up having babies with totally different appearances — yet identical DNA. Ready to hear how unlikely this is? The chances are 1 in a million, according to Libby's doctors. There are lotteries with better odds than that.

Having developed from the same zygote, the girls are monozygotic twins, but Amelia has brown eyes and dark skin while Jasmine has fair skin and blue eyes. And just look how cute they are:

There are other sets of twins with contrasting skin tones, but this is the first one reported in the United Kingdom, according to the Daily Mail. In fact, just a couple weeks ago, a pair of fraternal twins with differing skin colors was born in Manchester, England, but it's Amelia and Jasmine's identical DNA that make their case truly unique.

The funniest part of the story: In the time leading up to the twins' births, Libby was told by doctors that her kids would look so similar, she would have to mark them "with ink" to keep track of which was which.

In this fascinating instance of how bewildering genetics can be, there's one thing we can be sure of: the girls have been seriously adorable since day one.

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