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Spare Body Parts Trivia
Anne
Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII of England, is
commonly believed to have had 11 fingers. Historians
believe that she did have an extra finger or at
least some sort of growth on her hand that resembled
an extra finger.
Major league baseball pitcher Antonio Alfonseca has
six fingers on each hand, but he claims the extra
fingers do not affect his pitching, as they do not
usually touch the ball. In most cases of
polydactylism (extra fingers or toes), the extra
digit has only limited mobility, or cannot be moved
at all, and is often surgically removed shortly
after birth.
Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple on the left
side of his chest. Early in his career, he
considered having it removed, but he later came to
accept it. Around 2 percent of women and slightly
fewer men have a supernumerary nipple, although they
are often mistaken for moles.
In
2006, a boy named Jie-Jie was born in China with two
left arms. Although all three of his arms looked
normal, neither left arm was fully functional, and,
when he was two months old, doctors in Shanghai
removed the one closest to his chest after tests
revealed it was less developed.
Francesco Lentini, who was born in Sicily in 1889,
was born with three legs, two sets of genitals, and
an extra foot growing from the knee of his third leg
-- the remains of a conjoined twin that had died in the womb. Rejected
by his parents, he was raised by an aunt, then in a
home for disabled children before moving to America
when he was eight.
Josephene Myrtle Corbin, born in 1868, was a dipygus,
meaning that she had two separate pelvises and four
legs. She could move all of the legs, but they were
too weak to walk on. She married a doctor with whom
she had five children. Legend has it that three of
her children were born from one pelvis, and two from
the other.
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