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May 14, 2004

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q.  Did the famous Two-Headed Boy of Bengal (1783) really have two heads?

    A.  So terrified of his appearance was the midwife in the village of Mundal Gait that she threw the baby into the fire, says Jan Bondeson in "A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities."  He survived with burns and his parents later put him on exhibition for money, drawing large crowds all over India.


     
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