twins fathered 21 children never really
documented how they conducted themselves
in a sexually intimate way
Chang and Eng bunker are the original
Siamese twins
they were born in 1811 conjoined and
they remained that way throughout their
entire lives eventually getting married
and having children
and this is the Curious Case of the most
children born to unseparated conjoined
twins
are known as the first siamese twins but
of course they're not the first
conjoined twins in history it's just
they were given the name siamese twins
because they were born in Siam in which
is now called Thailand of course in 1811
and they became very famous almost an
overnight sensation a Scottish
businessman called Robert Hunter chanced
a bondman in 1824 and thought he would
be able to make money from their unusual
condition he convinced them to go on
tour in the USA basically as part of a
touring freak Show and they became
household names and the name siamese
twins has endured of course the
technical medical term has conjoined
twin but these guys were famously known
as the first siamese twins
they appeared in circuses and were
paraded as an oddity to be stared at and
prodded after touring for a number of
years they earned enough money to get
out to their original contract and they
settled in Mount Airy in America
they became U.S citizens taking the
surname bunker
the twins continued to make public
appearances to earn money and at one
point traveled with the greatest showman
PT Barnum so there was some criticism of
them especially when it came to their
Marrying an American woman like they
always wanted to get married they'd said
and a lot of people were quite critical
of this like we didn't want to be
marrying not just because of their
condition but they didn't want to be
marrying someone who looked like they
were of Chinese descent the twins
married sisters Adelaide and Sarah Yates
setting up two separate houses
they would spend three days at a time in
each of their homes
between them the twins fathered 21
children
Chang and Adelaide had 10 Eng and Sarah
had 11. when it comes to intimate
matters for conjoined twins I've heard
there are sometimes a mechanism where
you can almost shut down one of the
twins or at least go into a bit of a top
or to leave the other twin more active
with changing it was never really
documented how they conducted themselves
in a sexually intimate way but it is
interesting to note that when the wives
had their children they delivered with
only maybe only four or five days apart
which suggests some kind of coordination
there is a shadow on the brother's
history they became slave owners and
supporters of the Confederates in the
Civil War
unsurprisingly this changed the way
audiences viewed them when they went
back on tour again towards the end of
these 50s Chang sadly suffered a stroke
which didn't kill him but did leave him
quite debilitated and requiring the help
of Aang most of the time to achieve
anything on a daily basis and then about
four years later Chang sadly died in his
sleep
Aang woke up and found his brother lying
there there then realized that his time
was then limited as well and sadly
within just a couple of hours ng2 had
died at the age of 62.
but they now have thousands of
descendants every May their extended
family gathers together to find out more
about their famous great great
grandfathers
in 2018 14 of The Descendants went on a
very special trip to Thailand as part of
the Thai American relationship which is
known as the elephant and the eagle
the Twins were on xiphopagus which means
they were joined by the xiphoid process
which is a bit of cartilage and tissue
at the sternum so they did share a liver
or the livers were connected so today
you would probably quite easily be able
to separate the twins but back then in
the 1850s or whatever it would have been
a death sentence so they did the right
thing in not separating themselves and
in fact they didn't want to be separated
anyway they were born that way they were
used to it and they were able to punch
and have a normal life an average life
without being separated
a plaster Caster their bodies can be
viewed in Philadelphia USA
conjoined twins occur once in every 50
to 60 000 births and in the main they
can be separated or sadly they may not
survive and today there are around 12
sets of conjoined twins who haven't been
separated
Dragon name will probably be most
studied conjoined twins in history that
are prodded and probed and tested
probably more than any other at least
for that time and the fact that we still
use the term Siamese twin is Testament
to them so I think they definitely
deserve their place in the Guinness
World Records Curious Case book
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