They say a mother is always able to recognize her children even if her offspring are genetically identical. Surely even Nadya Suleman, the infamous Octomom, is able to tell the difference between each child in her artificially created brood.
But what about the rest of us? Without a maternal connection to sets of identical siblings, how are we supposed to tell them apart?
Enter one mother in China who had a low-cost solution to this problem: shave numbers into their heads. Why hasn’t anyone done this before? Taking a cue from The Island is a brilliant idea, nothing could ever go wrong.

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