There are as many even numbers as whole numbers: you can pair them off one by one. But from 1874, Georg Cantor proved you can't do the same between whole numbers and the real numbers, with their endless decimals: the latter form a strictly larger infinity. Attacked by some colleagues, he was defended by David Hilbert: “No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created.”
How many different structures can you build with six classic 2-by-4 Lego bricks of the same colour? The company used to quote just over 102 million. In 2005, Danish mathematician Søren Eilers recounted everything by computer: 915,103,765 combinations. The official estimate had been too low by a factor of about nine.
Fold an A4 sheet in half and you get an A5 with the same proportions. That only works for one ratio between length and width: about 1.414, the square root of 2. The A0 format measures exactly one square metre, and A4 is a sixteenth of it. With standard 80-gram-per-square-metre paper, an A4 sheet therefore weighs exactly 5 grams.