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.

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

An exploration of art and science for lovers of skulls

A nineteenth-century British man named Edward Mordrake (also spelled "Mordake") was born with a rare medical condition in the form of a extra face on the back of his head.

In the 19th and most of the 20th century, humankind’s obsession with all things weird and freaky could only be satisfied with a trip to the circus freak show. There, our ancestors could ogle people afflicted with skin conditions, deformities, and eccentricities, and sometimes people who just happened to be from another culture that the […]

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