Answer for: Favourite mathematical proof.
#16 Hairy Ball Theorem
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It's not a dirty joke...
You cannot comb a hairy ball.
More formally: A continous non-zero vector field on a 2-sphere does not exist.
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I have proven this one on my own Hairy Balls often!