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Picard's Great Theorem would be one of my favorite counterintuitive facts:

As a holomorphic function approaches an essential singularity, it takes on every possible value (except at most one) infinitely often. An astonishing result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_theorem

And the nice thing is you can prove this with fairly elementary techniques (e.g. first year complex analysis is all you need).



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