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A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

Julius Caesar,Martin Luther and Jonathan Swift all suffered from Menier's disease. It is a disorder of the hearing and balance senses causing hissing, roaring or whistling sounds to be perceived.

The first see-ing eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25,1938.

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The United States ,minted a 1787 copper coin with the motto 'Mind Your Business.

The first people to live in a land are called indigenous people. This means they were the original settlers.The Native Americans are the indigenous peoples and cultures of the United States.

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Sometimes these peoples are referred to as Indians. This is because when Columbus had first landed in America , he thought he had sailed all the way to the country of India. He called the locals Indians and the name stuck for some time.

As all good Scrabble players know. aa is a type of volcanic lava. There are also rivers called Aa in

France and Germany.. Whether these are alphabetically the first places on earth depends on how you treat the accent in the town of A in Norway.

Seducer of an estimated ten thousand women, Casanova generally used a pig's bladder as a condom. He was awarded The Order of the Golden Spur by Pope Clement XIII.

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