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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt traditionally has an impossible task or two among the list of things to find, make, or do. One year it was "build a working nuclear reactor in a shed on the Quad", which, in best Impossible Task fashion, turned out to be not ''quite'' as impossible as the organizers had expected (or hoped).
* "[[wikipedia:How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?|How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?]]" This question is impossible to answer, as it was intended to have no answer.<ref>However, it does have at least one answer:{{quote|Baptist angels can't dance.|Dave Broadfoot|''[[Royal Canadian Air Farce]]''}}</ref> This question is impossible to answer, as it was intended to have no answer. In fact, in modern times, it is often used as a metaphor for wasting time debating topics that are of no value.
 
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