stackyFACTSIf you have ten pigeons and only nine boxes, one box absolutely must contain two pigeons. This painfully obvious mathematical rule guarantees incredibly weird realities, like proving with absolute certainty that at least two people in a massive stadium have the exact same number of hairs on their head.
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