The eighth wonder of the world: the only girl in the world with two heads. "Two-Headed Miracle" - Pascual Pinon
There are many amazing people in the world. Some become so on their own, others - because of the whims of nature. The latter are of particular interest. And, perhaps, the most born one was Pascual Pinon (Mexico is the motherland), born in 1889 and died in 1929.
Striking Feature
There was no such person who would look at this man and not gasp in surprise. Which is quite understandable, because Pascual Pinon became famous as a man with two heads. And the photo provided above clearly demonstrates its feature.
Nothing is known about the origin of the man. It was found in Mexico - that's the only fact. Some say that he lived in an Indian tribe. Others claim that he lived alone near the mine.
Once rumors about reached the organizer of spectacular events from San Diego. This impresario was John Scheidler, who instantly became eager to find the "two-headed miracle." And he found it with great difficulty, spending an unmeasured amount of time and effort. And everyone he asked about Pascual pretended not to have heard of such a thing. Some respondents were aggressive. And when John found the man, it turned out that the locals perceived him as a talisman against the Devil. But they did not praise him at all.
Cruel treatment
The inhabitants of that area turned out to be very superstitious miners. The two-headed man was perceived by them as a child of black forces. And they firmly believed that if he was in their power, the Devil would not harm them. Pascual Pinon turned out to be a victim of prejudice - he was put in a small room in a mine drift, given water and food, but kept on a leash. He slept on bunks covered with straw. And he never saw white light.
John rescued the Mexican. He went straight to the “mine chiefs” and assured them that with his filing, the public could find out in a matter of days that an innocent person was on a leash. The superiors became nervous, and the two-headed man was released. Then, even years later, Pascual tried to change the subject as quickly as possible if he was asked about the time spent on a leash.
Appearance to the people
Pascual Pinon, coming out, immediately attracted the attention of an audience of millions. And this can be understood! After all, a second person looked at people, except for the Mexican! It moved its lips, made all sorts of grimaces, smiled, exposing beautiful even teeth (the size of a grain of rice). He had a conscious, chilling look in his eyes. Sometimes the face was angry or depressed. When people tried to ask the man what his “second” part was saying, Pascual Pinon flatly refused to answer.
The most adequate assumption of his such appearance was this: the second head is an underdeveloped twin brother. Which at a certain stage grew together in the womb with Pascual.
Sometimes he participated in performances. When he could be persuaded to do so. After some time, he became an ordinary fakir in the circus, and hid the other head under the top hat. Once he fell during a performance, and the cruel audience pelted the man with tomatoes and eggs. Insulted by this behavior, Pascual Pinon left the circus forever. What happened next? They say that the Mexican developed psychic abilities, resorting to which, he began to treat people.
Last years
Pascual spent the rest of his life in a nice mansion. He put a big hat near it - passers-by threw money and made wishes there. People assured: everything comes true, and immediately. Now this hat lies in a museum in Amsterdam next to a wax figure of an unusual celebrity.
It is a pity that Pinon did not live long. He died at the age of 40 due to illness. First she overpowered his little head. Due to illness, she literally withered. Then Pascual himself went to the next world. None of the relatives were present at the funeral. But people still continue to make wishes, believing that the spirit of the Mexican continues to live in the wax figure, fulfilling dreams.
amazing women
There are many other strange people in the world. It is worth talking about some women. Michel Kobke, for example. She has an incredibly thin waist. Her circumference reaches only 40.6 cm. True, the girl achieved this herself, wearing a special corset for a very long time. And she is not going to stop there.
And Jill Price has an amazing memory - she remembers absolutely every day of her life from the age of 11. Now she is 51, by the way. And if you give her any date since 1976, then she will tell you in great detail what happened then.
It is impossible not to tell about the American Christy Love - the owner of a breast of 48NN-size! It's hard to imagine, but her "dignity" weighs 14.34 kilograms. Now she works as a masseuse, earning about $ 2,000 daily.
And finally, Ashley Morris. A girl who, since the age of 14, suffers from a severe allergy ... to water. She is forbidden to have any contact with this liquid (drinking and washing - especially), otherwise it can lead to death.
One last thing about men
There are many more that cause surprise and admiration. It is impossible not to recall a man named Nick Vuychich.
This is a 34-year-old Australian who, due to a rare pathology (tetra-amelia), is missing legs and arms. There is only a partial foot. And it is thanks to her that Nick now knows how to do everything: walk, ride a skateboard and a surfboard, swim, write and work at a computer.
Also, everyone can be surprised by a Chinese named Yang Guanghe. In 2012, on April 28, he surprised the whole world, because he managed to drag a car weighing 1.6 tons with his eye sockets!
And the Cuban Yoandri Hernandez Garrido is able to amaze with his peculiarity, which is not even immediately evident. And the fact is that a man has 12 fingers on both hands. Fully developed, like everyone else, only the number is different. He likes this feature - many want to be photographed with him, which brings additional income.
Sultan Kösen can also surprise. He impresses with his height, which is 252 centimeters.
And finally, a few words about a man named Chandra Bahadura Dangi. The citizen of Nepal had an amazing height - 54.6 centimeters! And his weight was about 14 kilograms. Chandra lived a long life - he died at the age of 75 in 2015.
Once upon a time, the fate of all Siamese twins was one - to serve as amusement to the public. Today's world is not so cruel, but not many such twins become happy. We want to tell you about the difficult and often tragic fate of these people.
Siamese twins are identical twins that have not completely separated during the embryonic period of development and share body parts and / or internal organs. The chance of such people being born is approximately one in 200,000 births. More often, Siamese twins are born girls, although the first two pairs of the most famous Siamese twins were born boys. But if we discard science and “turn on” feelings, then you will not envy the fate of these people.
1. Unnamed Siamese twins
The earliest case of the birth of Siamese twins was scientifically recorded and dated to the year 945. This year, two fused boys from Armenia were brought to Constantinople for medical examination. A pair of unnamed Siamese twins managed to survive and even grow up. They were well known at the court of Emperor Constantine VII. After the death of one of the brothers, doctors made the first ever attempt to separate Siamese twins. Unfortunately, the second brother did not survive either.
2. Chang and Eng Bunker
The most famous pair of Siamese twins were the Chinese Chang and Eng Bunker. They were born in 1811 in Siam (modern Thailand). Later, all twins born with such a physical anomaly began to be called "Siamese". Chang and Eng were born with fused chest cartilage. In modern science, this type is called "xifopagi twins", and such twins can be divided. But in those days, the boys had to perform in the circus for the entertainment of the public in order to survive. For many years they toured with the circus under the nickname "Siamese twins" and became famous all over the world.
In 1839, the brothers stopped performing, bought a farm and even married two sisters. They gave birth to perfectly healthy children. These famous brothers died in 1874. When Chang died of pneumonia, Eng was sleeping at the time. Waking up and finding his brother dead, he also died, although before that he was healthy.
3. Millie and Christina McCoy
Another famous case of the birth of Siamese twins occurred in 1851. In North Carolina, a pair of Siamese twins, Millie and Christina McCoy, were born into a family of slaves. When the babies were eight months old, they were sold to D. P. Smith, a famous showman. It was assumed that when the girls grew up, they would be used to perform in the circus. They started performing at age three and were known as the "Two-Headed Nightingale". The girls had a musical education, sang well and played musical instruments. The sisters toured until the age of 58, and died in 1912 from tuberculosis.
4. Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci
Siamese twins Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci were born in 1877 in Italy as dicephalic twins. They had two heads, two legs, one body and four arms. It was said that when they saw the kids, their father, not having survived the shock, landed in a psychiatric clinic. But resourceful relatives decided to take advantage of the misfortune and forced the boys to perform in public. But Giovanni and Giacomo disliked this and did not respond well to “training”. They never learned to walk as each head only had control over one of the legs. According to some sources, the Tocci brothers died at an early age. Their difficult life was described in one of his stories by the famous writer Mark Twain.
5. Daisy and Violetta Hilton
These girls were born in 1908 in Brighton, England. They fused in the pelvis, but they did not have any vital common organs. At first, their fate was extremely sad. From birth, they were doomed to perform in various show programs. The twins were bought by Mary Hilton from their barmaid mom, and they started their first show while still very young. The girls sang and played musical instruments, touring throughout Europe and America. After the death of Mary Hilton, her relatives began to “patronize” the girls. And only in 1931, Daisy and Violetta were able to obtain the long-awaited freedom and 100 thousand dollars in compensation through the court.
The twins continued to perform and even came up with their own program. They toured in their senior years and even starred in two films, one of which was a biopic called Bound for Life.
Daisy and Violetta Hilton died in 1969 from the flu. Daisy died first, and Violetta remained alive for some time, but she did not have the opportunity to call anyone for help.
6. Simplicio and Lucio Godina
These two boys were born in 1908 in the city of Samar in the Philippines. The case is unique in that they were cartilaginously fused in the pelvis back to back, yet they were so flexible that they could turn to face each other. When the twins were 11 years old, they were taken to their upbringing by a wealthy Filipino, Theodore Yangeo. He raised the boys in luxury and took care of their good education. In 1928, Simplicio and Lucio married twin sisters (not Siamese) and lived a happy life until 1936, when Lucio fell ill with pneumonia and died. The decision was made to perform emergency surgery to separate the twins, but Simplicio contracted spinal meningitis and died 12 days after his brother's death.
7. Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapov
The most famous Siamese twins of the USSR Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapov were born on January 4, 1950. Their tragic fate is known to every Soviet person. The sisters were born with two heads, four arms, three legs and one common body. When one compassionate nurse showed the girls to their mother, the poor woman lost her mind and ended up in a psychiatric clinic. The sisters met their mother only when they were 35 years old.
For the first seven years, the girls were kept at the Institute of Pediatrics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where they were used as "guinea pigs". From 1970 until her death in 2003, the Krivoshlyapov sisters lived in a boarding school for the elderly. In the last years of their lives, Masha and Dasha often drank.
8. Abigail and Brittany Hensel
Sisters Abigail and Brittany Hensel were born in the western United States, in New Germany. On March 7, 2016, they turned 26 years old. Their life is a vivid example of the fact that, remaining a single whole, you can live a completely normal, full life. The Hensel sisters are dicephalic twins. They have one body, two arms, two legs, three lungs. Each has its own heart and stomach, but the blood supply between them is common.
Abigail and Brittany live with their parents, younger brother and sister. Each of them controls the arm and leg on their side, and each feels touched only on their side of the body. But they have learned to coordinate their movements very well, so much so that they can play the piano and drive a car. The inhabitants of their small town know the sisters well and treat them well. Abby and Brit have many friends, loving parents and quite a fulfilling life. Recently, the sisters graduated from the university, and each received a diploma. Now they teach mathematics in elementary school. Their attitude to life, the ability to overcome any difficulties is a special gift.
9. Krista and Tatiana Hogan
These wonderful babies were born in 2006 in Vancouver, Canada. At first, doctors gave a very small chance that the girls would survive. Even before they were born, they suggested that the mother have an abortion. But the young woman insisted on leaving the children, and never once regretted her decision. The girls were born healthy, and the only thing that distinguished them from ordinary children was that the sisters grew together with their heads. Twins grow and develop the way children their age should develop. They speak well and even know how to count. Their parents simply adore them and always say that they are healthy, beautiful and happy.
The human body grows and develops in accordance with the genetic program that is embedded in DNA. This molecule is made up of genes through which protein is produced. It serves as a building material for all life on Earth. Each gene, to put it simply, is responsible for a particular organ. These are the heart, kidneys, liver, brain, and skeleton. etc. All of them begin to grow and develop even in the womb of the mother's body. At the same time, the process of their development follows a well-established scheme.
Genes scrupulously adhere to a certain program, direct cell division, and, in the end, a small person is born. He has a head, arms, legs, eyes and other organs necessary for normal life. Very often, beautiful men and women with ideal body proportions grow out of children. Such bodies are pleasing to the eye and cause a feeling of admiration. Humanity owes all of this to DNA.
It would seem that a monument to this molecule, which gives people the joys of life, should be erected. But do not overpraise the complex biological design. She's not as perfect as she seems. Sometimes a systemic failure occurs in the molecule, and the development of individual parts of the body deviates from the given programs. In this case, creatures appear in the light of God, absolutely not similar to the surrounding people. Freak people - that's what they've been called since time immemorial. Physical deviations bring incalculable suffering to freak people, but it is impossible to help them. Science still has very little knowledge to correct the work of genes on its own.
Such perfect human bodies are born thanks to the precise work of DNA.
From this we can conclude that the Higher Mind, which invented DNA at one time, was by no means distinguished by conscientiousness and responsibility. These guys obviously cheated and did such a responsible job in bad faith. A person can only state the facts of ugliness and meekly demolish the marriage of hacks.
Calms only the thought that it is for the time being. Genetics will soon go far ahead, and people will eventually learn to correct the flaws of others. Our descendants may even get to the Higher Mind. They'll kick these guys' ears or take off their belts and unfasten them in a fatherly way in soft places. But this is a matter for the future, but we will turn to the past and talk about the clearly expressed ugliness, which has always aroused in people a feeling of great curiosity mixed with compassion.
hairy people
Doctors call increased hair on the body "hypertrichosis". This is when a person is covered from head to toe with hair. They do not grow only on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. It is especially unpleasant when lush vegetation covers the face. The most famous person with this deformity was Jo-Jo. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1868. His name was Fedor Evtishchev.
Jo-Jo or Fedor Evtishchev
Due to hairiness, the boy from an early age performed first in Russian, then in French circuses. In 1884, the famous American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) drew attention to him. The young man went to America and received the pseudonym Jo-Jo. He traveled all over the states, acting as a humanoid dog. The cunning showman told everyone that he was born by a woman who became pregnant from a German shepherd. Fedor died in 1904 from pneumonia while on tour in Europe.
Freak people are not only among men. A terrible and terrible burden falls on the fragile female shoulders. An example of this is the Puerto Rican Priscilla Loter. The Loters themselves lived in the United States. They adopted the girl in 1911, paying decent money to her parents. The entire body of the child was covered with long black hair. On the face, only the nose, cheeks and forehead were devoid of vegetation. For the Loters, who worked in the field of circus attractions, the ugly girl was a real find.
Priscilla with her adoptive father Karl Lauter
In addition to hairiness, Priscilla had two rows of teeth growing in her mouth. However, that didn't bother her at all. The ugliness did not affect the intellect either. The child was exceptionally smart. He was a wild success with the audience. Respectable in all respects, Karl Loter, before Priscilla's performance, sincerely assured the audience that she was born by a woman who had an intimate relationship with a great ape. Of course, the master was a little cunning, but it was necessary to somehow stir up the interest of the satiated public. In confirmation of the invented “legend”, Priscilla performed on the circus stage only with monkeys.
One very rich and eccentric American woman wanted to adopt a girl. She cherished the dream of crossing her with a monkey. But the Loters were not tempted by a large amount of money and refused the lover of exotic experiments. Priscilla married a circus performer who also had a deformity. The young man's skin on his body was covered with large scabs, and he portrayed an alligator in front of the audience. God did not give this couple children, but they lived a long and happy life together.
Giants and dwarfs
History knows quite a few people with very small and large stature. These are also freak people, since they turned out like this as a result of a genetic failure. In the old days, all monarchs kept dwarfs in their courts. It was believed that shorties and midgets bring good luck. For more than a thousand years, this public has enjoyed a favorable situation. Near the royal table they lived quite well. If they still knew how to make laugh, then they became favorites of the reigning persons. The most famous of all dwarfs is Geoffrey Hudson.
The shorty was eaten at the court of the English king Charles I (1600-1649). His height was only 75 cm in adulthood. As a child, he was less than 15 centimeters, so he was often put in a large cake and served at the table. The guests surrounded the confectionery miracle, and then a tiny man jumped out of it, like a devil from a snuffbox. For those who didn't know, it had a tremendous effect.
Little people in a big world
Geoffrey was very fond of the queen. Naturally, the kid enjoyed it. He behaved boldly and defiantly with the courtiers. One day, the dwarf considered himself offended by the marquis and challenged him to a duel. The kid had his own sword. It was made to him by order of the queen. With this miniature weapon, Geoffrey managed to wound the Marquis several times in the thigh, before the soldiers arrived in time to separate the brawlers.
No less popular are freak people of enormous stature. Ancient historians call startling figures. For example, the same Goliath had a height of 2 meters 90 centimeters. Many researchers who adhere to the alien version of the development of human civilization believe that Goliath was not a Philistine, but a representative of an alien race. So be it, but besides Goliath, there are enough other giants who are in no way inferior to him in size.
You can call Orestes, whose growth reached 3 meters. This is the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - the sister of Helen the Beautiful, because of which the Trojan War broke out. Here, the alien version will no longer crawl through, since the giant's sister was Iphigenia. The same beautiful girl who wanted to be slaughtered to appease Artemis. The growth of the young creature did not stand out among other girls. Thus, if Orestes is an alien, then why is Iphigenia so small?
Let's leave ancient Greek mythology on the conscience of historians and turn to the ancient Romans. They, too, could boast of huge freak people. Judging by the memoirs of Josephus Flavius (37-100), who wrote the famous work "Jewish War", very tall slaves lived in Rome. Among them, one named Eleazar stood out in particular. His height reached 3 meters 30 centimeters. But this giant was not distinguished by great physical strength. He was long and thin. But I ate for three. In the competitions of inveterate eaters, Eleazar always won everyone.
It is believed that high growth directly depends on the bones of the legs. The longer the legs, the taller the person. At the same time, the length of his body is not much different from the standard sizes. Giants rarely have great physical strength. The real athlete was a giant named Angus MacAskill. He was born in Scotland in 1825. Until the age of 13, he was an ordinary child. Then he began to grow rapidly. At the age of 21, his height was 235 cm with a weight of 180 kg. It was a mountain of muscle without a single ounce of fat.
Naturally, a huge strong man performed in the circus, while earning good money. He lifted weights, striking the audience with incredible strength. But there is a hole in the old woman too. MacAskill once made a bet of $1,000 that he would lift a ship's anchor out of the sea water. He weighed almost 900 kg, but the money was very good, and the mighty giant got down to business. The giant lifted the anchor, but at the same time injured his spine. I had to quit the circus. Already an invalid, Mac-Askill went to his homeland, where he died in 1863.
Robert Wadlow with his older brother
The tallest man on the planet in the history of civilization is officially considered Robert Wadlow. This is an American who lived in Mississippi. He died at the age of 22 in 1940. The young man weighed 220 kg with a height of 267 cm. The cause of death was not high growth at all, but a banal blood poisoning. The guy cut his leg, which led to an untimely death.
Fat people are freaks
Fat people also belong to freak people. But not ordinary fat people, but immensely fat personalities. For them, elementary physical actions are a whole problem. Even to walk around the room, fat people need to make a lot of effort. The American Robert Earl Hughes belongs to this company. He lived in Indiana, and left the mortal world in 1958. His weight was 468 kg with a height of 178 cm.
This man could not move. In order to sit, a special chair was made for him. He slept on a special bed. Its frame was welded from steel corners. The mattress was placed on a steel sheet welded to the corners. When Robert was taken to the hospital, they had to order a crane and a loader. The cause of his death was overweight, which is not at all surprising.
Fat freak people were not uncommon in other states of America. A similar situation was observed in Johnny Ali, who lived in North Carolina. He was born in 1853 and at first was no different from other children. When the boy was 11 years old, he just had a wolfish appetite. The child began to rapidly gain weight. By the age of 15, he could no longer pass through the doorway to leave the house on the street. At the age of 16, the young man switched to a reclining lifestyle.
All the time he spent at home, sitting in a special chair. He slept in it, because he simply could not get over to the bed, and the family were not able to drag the huge body back and forth. The weight of the young man reached 509 kg. This data was obtained after Johnny died. During his lifetime, no one weighed him, so as not to create unnecessary problems for himself.
A young man died in 1887 at the age of 33. The reason for this was elementary human stubbornness. Johnny tried to get up from time to time so as not to feel completely flawed. So this time, he managed to lift his huge carcass from the chair and went to the window of the room to admire the world around him. The floorboards could not withstand the enormous weight. The floorboards broke and the poor man fell down. There was a cellar under the room, but Johnny didn't fall into it. He was stuck in the hole, legs dangling helplessly.
Relatives and neighbors hastily began to build a wooden platform so that the fat man could lean on him with his feet. But while people were working, the young man could not stand all the upheavals and died. A huge body was pulled out of the basement with the help of horses. At the funeral, artiodactyls and special blocks were also used to lower the coffin with the deceased into the grave.
Freak people with two heads
Such people-freaks also occasionally appear in the world, introducing eyewitnesses of this phenomenon into a state of superstitious horror. In 1953, a two-headed baby was born in Indiana. He lived for several weeks. One of the heads was completely normal. The other had a mouth, eyes, ears, but there were no glimmers of intelligence on her face. The heads grew from one body, but each moved, slept and ate independently of the other.
Much earlier, in 1889, also in the state of Indiana, a creature was born, which in official medicine is called the "Jones twins." They had a common body, but their heads were directed in opposite directions. The "twins" had 4 legs, and each two fused with each other. The body had two arms. It seemed that the right hand obeyed the orders of one brain, and the left - another. The Jones twins died in 1891.
Baby with two heads
In 1829, a freak with two heads was born on the island of Sardinia. Each head "sat" on a long neck. The body was common with two arms and legs. Parents gave the child the name Rita-Christina. The family lived very poorly, so the father and mother took the two-headed creature with them to Paris and began to show it to the curious public for money.
It all ended with the fact that the authorities banned such an immoral event. Parents left Rita-Christina in the winter in an unheated room and went home. The child very soon died of hunger and cold. Doctors opened a small body and made sure that, apart from two heads, there were no more paired organs in it. The skeleton of the unfortunate child is still kept in Paris today.
History knows a man with one head but two faces. This is Edward Mordrake. He lived in the 19th century and was a representative of an aristocratic English family. His second face was located at the back of his head. It had muscles, so it could smile, frown, and even laugh. But most of the time, the face bore the stamp of gloomy doom. The owner of two persons could not bear such a burden that weighed on his psyche. He went insane and ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
Freak people with one eye
The first one-eyed people are the Cyclopes. Their only eye was located on their forehead. We know about this from ancient Greek mythology. Whether these freak people actually lived on earth or not is unknown. But medicine is well known to a Negro named Nikolos. He lived in the first half of the 20th century in Mississippi. He had a normal human eye in the center of his forehead. There were no eye sockets, as such. These places were absolutely flat, covered with leather. Eyebrows grew, like all normal people.
Representatives of the circus business promised this man fabulous money. But he never entered the circus arena. Nikolos ran a farm and tried to avoid people. He felt comfortable only among animals. Nikolos was very fond of dogs, which were up to the lantern that their owner had one eye. The one-eyed American did not start a family and died quietly alone in the 60s of the last century.
Conclusion
Thus, it is clear that the DNA molecule from time to time "gives out on the mountain" amazing biological masterpieces. Freak people amaze humanity with their appearance, while experiencing inexpressible mental suffering. Even if they earn a lot of money performing in the circus, this is hardly a moral consolation for them. Many of them would agree to live in poverty, but have a normal human appearance.
Nowadays, when the environment leaves much to be desired, abnormal deviations in people are becoming more common. These are no longer flaws in the work of the Higher Mind, but the irresponsible activities of individual representatives of the human race. So it remains to be seen who needs to be "given a belt" - the mysterious humanoids who invented DNA, or the owners of huge corporations that are gradually and steadily turning the human race into terrible mutants.
The article was written by Alexey Zibrov
Siamese twins Abigail and Brittany from the USA graduated from university and began teaching at school
Sisters Abigail and Brittany Hensel are Siamese twins. On March 7, they turned 23 years old. Abby and Brit, as their parents and friends call them, have one body for two, two arms, two legs. With internal organs, too, not everything is simple: two hearts, but a common circulatory system, two stomachs, two gallbladders, three kidneys, but one liver and one large intestine, three lungs, but common genitals. The sisters have two spines that converge into one pelvis.
Doctors call such twins dicephalic. Such cases are extremely rare. Only four pairs of surviving dicephalic twins are known to history, and one of them is the Hensel sisters. Now they are the only living dicephalic twins in the world.
Abby can drink liters of coffee, while Brit has a quicker heartbeat after a few cups.
When Abby and Brit are called a girl with two heads, they immediately correct: "We are two different people with the same body!" And indeed it is. Each of the sisters has their own character, their own tastes and preferences in food, clothing, entertainment, but they have learned to give in to each other.
* Brittany prefers neutral tones, but Abigail, who loves bright clothes, often wins over what to buy or wear
Abigail and Brittany were born in the town of New Germany (US state of Minnesota). Their mother is a nurse and their father is a carpenter. There are other children in the family - the youngest son and daughter. Hensels are very friendly and stand each other like a mountain. They have a large farm, a lot of livestock and other animals.
Doctors persuaded the Hensel spouses to undergo an operation to separate the Siamese twins. The parents had already agreed, but, having learned that one of the girls would definitely not survive, they resolutely rejected the proposal. Patty Hensel, Abby and Brit's mother, said she would never commit murder. And she challenged fate, for which her daughters are now immensely grateful to her.
In childhood, they, like most ordinary sisters and brothers, often argued with each other. There used to be fights! Once, when they were very young, Brit hit Abby on the head with a rock. Then both cried and asked each other for forgiveness. Now disagreements also arise, but the girls solve them in peace. If they can't find a compromise right away, they just toss a coin.
What are they arguing about? Yes about everything! “We have a different style,” says Abby. - Brittany likes more neutral tones, pearls and all that. And I would love to wear bright, fun colors.” They, of course, buy clothes together. They go to a regular store, choose models, and then alter them at home - they have to make a second neck in blouses, dresses, sweaters. They try to buy clothes without buttons and zippers.
Abby, who doesn't mince words, is more likely to win arguments about what to buy or wear. Brit gets revenge when the sisters plan a vacation. Abby is a homebody, and Brit loves all sorts of parties, dancing, movies.
The New Germans know the sisters well and treat them well. And the rudeness or unpleasant jokes of strangers Abby and Brit are simply ignored. And yet everything happens. Erin Junkans, a close friend of the Hensel sisters, says they have to be very careful when they find themselves in a new place. It is impossible to predict in advance the reaction of people, especially in any club. Someone wants to touch the twins, someone starts taking pictures of them. “Abby and Brit don't like it,” says Erin. - My girlfriends and I try to block them from the lenses or cameras of smartphones. I watch how the girls react to the crowd. When they begin to worry a lot, it is better to leave, change the situation. But I'm always surprised by their ability to immediately shake off everything and continue to have fun.
The sisters react differently to coffee. Brit's heart beats faster after a few cups, and Abby can drink coffee by the liter. Brit loves milk, but Abby hates it. As they eat soup, Brittany won't let her sister sprinkle crackers on half of her. Abby is more aggressive, Brit is more artistic. Abby was better at math at school, Brit was better at literature.
Even in childhood, the sisters learned to act in concert. Each controls the arm and leg on their side, and each feels touched only on their side of the body. Yes, and the temperature of the sisters is always different. Abby quickly gets hot, while Brit can freeze at this time.
*Brit controls the right side of the body, Abby - the left, while the twins coordinate their movements well
Twins of different heights. Abby, whose height is 1 meter 57 centimeters, is 10 centimeters taller than her sister. And their legs are different lengths, so Brit has to stand on tiptoe all the time to keep her body balanced. But they coordinate their movements so well that they can quickly walk, run, swim, ride a bike, play volleyball and even compete in local teams. The sisters sing well and accompany themselves on the piano, with Abby playing the parts for the right hand, and Brit for the left.
And they are also able to read each other's thoughts, which they have already seen more than once. When Brit wants to sneeze or cough, Abby automatically covers her sister's mouth with her hand. One day they were watching TV, and suddenly Abby asked: “Are you thinking the same thing as me?” Brit replied, "Yes." And they went to read the same book.
“Each of us has a diploma, but they pay us one salary for two”
The Hensel sisters drive a car. They had to pass on the rights twice - each for himself. But that was about theory. The driving practice was passed once, and the instructor was close to losing consciousness. No, his students did a great job, only he hadn’t done this before. 
I saw: the steering wheel seemed to be turned by one person, and the pedals, levers and buttons were controlled as if by two different drivers. As a result, two driver's licenses were issued.
“The police rarely stop us, we are disciplined, we don’t break the rules, but anything can happen,” Brittany laughs. - The main fun begins when the patrolman asks for a license. Whose is it for you, we ask, and we begin to argue which of us just drove a car.
The girls have two passports. The sisters love to travel by plane, and every time they have a dispute with the representatives of the airlines. “We are being asked for two tickets because there are two Hensel sisters on the passenger list,” says Abby. - And we answer that we occupy one place in the cabin. So why do we need two tickets?”
The sisters recently graduated from university. They each received a diploma and teach mathematics in elementary school.
“We were hired with no problems,” says Brittany. - But we immediately realized that we would be paid one salary, because we perform the duties of one person. We do not agree with this. One can tell a lesson or listen to students' answers, while the other monitors discipline or checks notebooks at this time. So we do more work than other teachers. Maybe over time, when we gain experience, we will be able to achieve a salary increase. We still have two diplomas.”
Principal Paul Goode is pleased with the new teachers. “Abby and Brit have already become role models for their students,” he said. - And I'm not just talking about the knowledge that they pass on to children. Their attitude to life, the ability to overcome any difficulties is a special gift. Children feel it right away. Sometimes it seems to me that these girls can do everything. They will get whatever they want."
The Hensel sisters are very sociable and easy to get in touch with. But there is one topic that they do not like to discuss. This is their personal life. A couple of years ago, one of the American newspapers reported that Brittany was engaged. The sisters called it "a stupid joke."
Patty Hensel also tries to avoid this topic. In April, when her daughters were filmed by a BBC group, she told reporters: “Any mother wants her children to be happy, healthy and successful. I can say for sure that Abby and Brit are happy and successful. And that's all I want!"
1. A woman with two vaginas
Hazel JonesHazel Jones could not understand why during puberty she suffered from terrible cramps and unbearable pain. This remained unclear until she was 18 years old and doctors diagnosed her with two vaginas.
A 27-year-old blonde woman from High Wycombe was born with a uterine anomaly called Uterus Didelphys, which means she has two wombs and two cervixes. The chance of this happening is one in a million.
Hazel went to the doctor after her boyfriend said her genitals were different from other women's. Hazel says that her condition does not cause her any inconvenience, despite the fact that she had to lose her virginity twice.
2. A man with two penises
The man who calls himself DoubleDickDude has two functional penises. He was born with diphallia, a rare congenital anomaly characterized by the presence of two penises. No more than 100 such cases have been reported worldwide.
Each penis is 15 cm long, but DDD states that with a strong erection, they can grow up to 18 cm. DDD also provided evidence - a couple of quite illustrative photographs. Unfortunately, too visual to publish them in the article.
3The boy with an extra strand of DNA
Alfie Klump A two-year-old boy has become the only person in the world diagnosed with an extra strand of DNA. Alfie Klump was born blind and severely disabled, which forced doctors to perform a series of tests that showed that his seventh chromosome had an extra strand, which had never been seen before in the world.
Doctors shrug: the anomaly is so rare that it doesn't even have a name. Also, doctors have no idea whether this will increase or decrease the boy's life expectancy.
His parents, Gemma and Richard Klump, realized that something was wrong with their son only when they brought him home from the hospital. The boy stopped breathing, his lips turned blue, and he was immediately taken to the hospital. Doctors discovered an extra strand of DNA when he was six weeks old.
4. Indian boy with extra limbs on his chest
In 2010, an Indian boy, born with eight limbs and therefore revered as a god in his country, underwent an operation that gave him a chance for a normal life. At the time of the operation, he was seven years old.
Deepak's family did not like such attention to their son, to put it mildly, and they turned to people for help in order to raise money for an operation to remove extra limbs, and in a hospital in the southern city of Bangalore they were offered to do the operation for free.
The groundbreaking surgery costs around £50,000 - a sum that was impossible for a poor family to raise. Fortunately, four hours of exhausting work were crowned with complete success.
5. A child with two faces
Kangkang, now 14 months old, was born with a deformity called transverse cleft face, which looks like the baby has two faces or is wearing a mask.
His mother is a young woman named Yi Xilian from Hunan Province who works for an electronics company in Guangdong Province. During pregnancy, all tests indicated a normal healthy baby, and the terrible truth became known only after the birth of Kankang. The poor child looks as if a terrible mask has grown to his face - a huge cleft crosses almost the entire face from ear to ear.
The unfortunate mother was not allowed to see her son for some time after his birth, and she begged her husband to ensure that they were allowed to see the baby. When she was finally shown the child, she almost went mad with grief. No one knows the causes of this terrible condition, and the treatment is incredibly complex and expensive: around 300,000 to 400,000 yen, or $80,000 to $100,000.
Fortunately, the family managed to raise enough money and Kankang is now being treated at the People's Liberation Army Military Hospital No. 163.
6The Man With Two Hearts Who Survived A Double Heart Attack
Initially, there seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary about a man admitted to the emergency room at a hospital in Verona, Italy, in 2010. He had difficulty breathing, sweating and low blood pressure - there was no doubt that he had problems with the cardiovascular system.
Doctors thought that this was a typical case of cardiac arrest until they examined the patient more closely and noticed his unusual condition. In fact, this man was not born with two hearts, but received a second heart after a medical procedure - he was transplanted straight into the first one.
The essence of heterotopic transplantation is that in addition to the diseased organ, another identical but healthy organ is added to the patient's body. Of course, there is an inherent risk that in the event of a successful transplant, the patient will have two independent heart rhythms, especially if one heart performs much better than the second. Apparently, this is exactly what happened to the Italian patient.
Doctors administered drug therapy in an attempt to correct the rhythm disturbances, but this caused both hearts to stop completely, after which the doctors were able to successfully use a defibrillator to restart the hearts. The patient is now feeling well and his hearts are functioning normally.
7. A man with three legs and two hearts
George Lippert was born in Germany in 1844 with three legs and two functioning hearts. The latter, however, was not known until the autopsy of his body in 1906. His third leg was fully developed and even had an extra toe - Lippert had 16 toes in total. There was no functional leg, the man could not walk with its help. He himself stated that it could be leaned on in the same way as on other legs, until he accidentally broke it.
Early in his career, George was known as "the world's only three-legged man", he even worked in P. T. Barnum's circus. There is evidence that he was not the most pleasant person and not the best business partner. There are very few photographs of him - only one has survived to this day.
Lippert's main competitor was Francesco Lentini: his fate was more successful - he lived a long life, married and raised two children, and died in 1966 at the age of 78.
Francesco was born in 1889 in Sicily with four legs, but the fourth limb was so poorly developed that he could not use it and therefore was considered a three-legged person. His third leg was fully functional. In total, he also had 16 toes, as well as two working penises.
8. A child with two heads
25-year-old Brazilian Maria de Nazaré was sure that she would become the mother of two twins. A few minutes before the birth, tests showed that the twins for two had one heart, lungs, liver and pelvis, but separate heads and spines. Maria de Nazaré gave birth by caesarean section at a hospital in Anaias, in the northern state of Pará, Brazil, to a 4 kg baby. In honor of religious holidays, she decided to name her children Emanuel and Jesus.
In fact, a two-headed boy is two Siamese twins with a single body: this condition is known as dicephaly. The woman's doctors claimed that she almost lost her mind.
It is noteworthy, but this is the second time the birth of a two-headed child in Brazil - the first was in 2011. Sueli Ferreira, 27, gave birth to a two-headed baby in the state of Paraiba, but he died a few hours after birth due to the fact that one of the heads received insufficient oxygen.
Neyla Dahas, director of the Santa Casa Hospital, said that removing one of the heads was not possible because both brains were functioning and both heads sucked at the mother's breast.
Source 9The Twin Womb Woman Who Had Triplets
The condition, known as Uterine Didelphys, involves the presence of two wombs in a woman's body - a rare occurrence that occurs in one in a thousand women. But Hannah Kersey, her mother, and her sister each have two wombs.
Hannah became famous in 2006 when she gave birth to triplets: the 23-year-old woman developed the twins Ruby and Tilly in one womb and Grace in the other.
Over the past 100 years, 70 cases have been documented when children developed in different wombs, but the birth of triplets is a unique case. Doctors estimate the likelihood of this as one chance in 25 million.