Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Diblings don't always get along.

The younger brother or sister usually wants to tag along and be part of what the older

one is doing, and the older one doesn't want to be stuck babysitting the younger sibling

went out with friends.

But Chang and Ang Bunker didn't have that problem.

They were stuck with each other.

Literally.

Born in Siam in 1811, Chang and Ang were raised in a small village by their widowed mother.

Despite being joined at the sternum, they played and went about their lives like average

children.

Then in 1824, a British merchant named Robert Hunter came to the village.

It spotted Chang and Ang swimming in the Menem River, originally mistaking them for some

kind of, in his words, strange animal.

He never seen two people physically connected to one another in such a way.

He guessed many others hadn't either, and they'd probably pay money to do so.

It took years of convincing, but in 1829 Hunter and his friend Abel Koffin were eventually

able to put them on a boat bound for the US.

Rumors had circulated that their mother had sold the twins into slavery.

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