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		nathanwh on July 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All People in Canada are the Same Age (1997) Fun stuff, there's a few more on this page: https://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/fallacies.h... The last one in particular I thought was interesting

exmadscientist on July 13, 2020 | [–]

The ladder problem is one that I seem to remember was in our first-year classical mechanics text back when I was in grad school, and caused a lot of debate... it's a good one.

toxik on July 13, 2020 | [–]

Hilariously I pinned down all the other problems in one try, except the everybody is the same age one.

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