Proof
Claim: There is no such thing as an uninteresting natural number.
Proof by Contradiction: Assume that there is a non-empty set of natural numbers that are not interesting. Due to the well-ordered property of the natural numbers, there must be some smallest number in the set of uninteresting numbers. Being the smallest number of a set one may consider uninteresting makes that number interesting after all: a contradiction.
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