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The Brouwer fixed-point theorem says that every continuous self-map of the closed unit disc has a fixed point.
A union of two disjoint closed discs does not have the fixed-point property. Define a map that is constant from the first component to a point in the second and constant from the second component to a point in the first. It is continuous because the components are disjoint and has no fixed point.

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