stackyFACTSTaking the Mobius strip to an incredibly frustrating extreme, this topological nightmare seamlessly connects its interior completely to its exterior. If you hypothetically filled it with fluid, the fluid would already technically be on the outside. It requires four spatial dimensions to exist without mathematically intersecting itself.
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