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The cat is dead - long live the pigeons!

Look what we found recently: Schrödinger's Pigeon! The pigeonhole principle states that if you have three pigeons and put them in two holes, one hole will contain more than one pigeon. Though it seems a rather cruel thing to do, everyone can grasp that. That's the way we count objects. An international team of researchers have found a way to prepare three quantum objects into two “holes" in such a way that no two particles are in the same box. 

Here's this paper: "Quantum violation of the pigeonhole principle and the nature of quantum correlations."

But wait, I'm not ready yet! Though everyone seemed happy to have a new symbol for the way quantum physics seems unintuitive - pigeons instead of a cat - the effect maybe a result of the interference between the components of the wavefunctions. 

And there's that paper: "On the implications of the Quantum-Pigeonhole Effect"