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Extremely weird, but kinda cool at the same time.

Illustration of dissection of conjoined twins from the 1665 edition of De Monstris by Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657).

Image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. Via. Wikipedia

This is the guy who utterly baffled me last year. For anyone looking to find a closer view of the thoracophagus twins that was not motivated enough to search out the book :3