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The Banach–Tarski Paradox
one ball becomes two
Cut a solid ball into a handful of pieces, rotate and reassemble them with no stretching, and get TWO balls identical to the original. A real theorem, resting on a genuinely strange consequence of infinite sets.
Source: Banach–Tarski theorem (1924), dramatized
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