History: Freaks Of Nature

1630s - Lazarus Colloredo, and his parasitic twin brother, John Baptista, who was attached at Lazarus' sternum, tour Europe.
1704–1718 - Peter the Great collected human oddities at the Kunstkammer in what is now St. Petersburg, Russia.
1738 - The exhibition a creature who "was taken in a wook at Guinea; 'tis a female about four feet high in every part like a woman excepting her head which nearly resembles the ape."
1884 - Joseph Merrick, exhibited as "The Elephant Man" by Tom Norman in London's East End.