(#6) They Had A Large And Unconventional Family
Although very few of their neighbors approved of their marriages, Chang and Eng seemed to lead a normal, if not logistically mysterious, sex life. Their first children were born only six days apart, and another pair were only eight days apart. They would go on to have 21 children between the two of them - Chang and Adelaide had 10 children while Eng and Sarah had 11.
(#2) A British Merchant Plucked Them From Relative Obscurity
When they were in their early teens, their main role in life was helping their family sell preserved duck eggs in a small fishing village. One day, British merchant Robert Hunter spotted the boys swimming in a river and initially thought they were a strange animal. Although King Rama III wanted to keep the twins in Siam, Hunter was eventually able to bribe him over a span of five years into letting the boys go West.
(#12) Their Death Cast Lives On At The Mutter Museum
After they were declared legally dead, the doctors and scientists who had always been curious about how the twins lived swarmed to get a look inside their mysterious bodies. They were sent to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, where they were autopsied. It was found that their livers were fused, which would have definitely caused major complications if they had chosen to go forward with a separation. A cast was made of their upper bodies after the autopsy was performed, which is still on display in Philadelphia's Mutter Museum.
(#10) They Changed Their Tune About Separation
From the beginning, Chang and Eng had never wanted to be separated. They were perfectly happy and knew that any separation process they would endure would be extremely risky and might cost their lives. However, towards the end, their bodies began to age at different rates, causing tension and worry. The thought of having to live with a corpse attached to them began to scare the twins. They actually begged doctors to separate them, but the doctors believed such a procedure would kill them both due to heavy blood loss. The physicians also had no way of knowing what was contained inside their connecting ligament.
(#8) One Took To The Bottle While The Other Did Not
Chang supposedly took to the bottle much more aggresively after their daughters passed away, although Eng did not follow suit. Scientists and doctors noticed that although they were connected, the effects of the alcohol did not transfer from one twin to the other. Chang's alcoholism affected his health in several ways as they grew older and may have been a contributing factor in his death.
(#5) They Married Two (Non-Conjoined) Sisters
In 1838, they decided to settle down and move to North Carolina. It was there that the twins met sisters Adelaide and Sarah Yates. Chang fell in love with Adelaide and Adelaide with Chang. They wanted to get married, but it was decided that the marriage couldn't go forward without her sister, Sarah, also marrying Eng. Although they were not in love (they just tolerated each other), the marriage went forward anyway. Their father did not initially approve - not because the men were conjoined, but because they were Asian.
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In 1811, a strange thing happened in the Chinese area of Thailand, a Chinese couple gave birth to twins, which is a pair of siamese twins, was named Chang And Eng Bunker. Everyone regards them as monsters. Since the medical technology at that time was not as advanced as it is now, the siamese twins did not have the opportunity to have separation surgery, and the fate of the brothers closely linked.
The good thing for them is that they are connected together apart from the belly, and separated in other body parts. The random tool shares 14 important life experices of Chang And Eng Bunker.
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