Human oddities

It's remarkable that human growth and development goes so smoothly, despite the numerous opportunities for errors. Here are 10 cases where things went wrong.

Wikipedia article about Chang and Eng Bunker

Far from being the drunken, exploitative brute portrayed on stage, Valerie Hawkins insists ancestor Tom Norman, who exhibited Joseph Merrick in Whitechapel, was in fact kind and considerate.

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When I was a little girl, nothing terrified me more than going to the circus, which for some reason, my family loved taking me to. Despite my pleads of, "Noooo, I don't want to!", which they probably thought were the pleadings and rantings of a bratty little girl (I wasn't bratty, I was a good girl). But, they were the pleadings of a very scared girl! Clowns, freaks, it was all horrific to me. I remember going to freak shows as a little girl and coming home traumatized. Now that I'm older…

Conjoined twins. www.museocereanatomiche.it/simple.asp?idp=15

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We often forget what a wondrous world we live in. While getting caught up in our hectic schedules makes us oblivious to things around us, today we're gonna zoom in on the unseen and unnoticed side of things.