TIL the interesting number paradox, which suggests that if we classify natural numbers as "interesting" or "uninteresting," a contradiction arises: the smallest uninteresting number becomes interesting simply by being the smallest in its set. This implies that every natural number is interesting.

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

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It's a joke, "interesting-ness" doesn't have a formal mathematical definition.