Identical college twins were accused of cheating in an exam by signaling

• Identical twins Kayla and Kellie Bingham's medical school accused them of cheating on an exam.

• They'd given up their dreams of becoming doctors because the accusation ruined their reputations.

• The twins won a lawsuit after a psychologist said their special "intertwining" made them innocent.

In the fall of 2016, identical twins Kayla and Kellie Bingham, who were studying at the Medical University of South Carolina, walked into their favorite hang-out spot in the college town of Charleston.

They saw that a large number of their fellow students were there. Kayla told Insider that the students stared and nudged each other.

Identical college twins were accused of cheating in an exam by signaling. They won $1.5 million in damages after a jury decided they hadn't cheated because their minds were connected.