Before the days of modern medicine, people were sometimes forced to live with strange deformities. They would be left in institutions in many cases, but some would find their way to the circus and their deformities would become the remarkable feature thousands would flock to see. Many of the people in these freakshows were born or injured in a way we probably wouldn’t see in the 21st century, but back before television, anything unusual or odd became a sensational attraction at the circus.
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