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Let $n\geq 2$. Is there a space $S$ of dimension $n$ such that $S^2$ also has dimension $n$?
The space of rational points in Hilbert space has this property for $n=1$. This was proved for general $n$ by Anderson and Keisler [AnKe67].
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Does every connected set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ contain a connected subset which is not a point and not homeomorphic to the original set?

If $n\geq 2$ does every connected set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ contain more than $2^{\aleph_0}$ many connected subsets?

Asked by Erdős in the 1940s, who thought the answer to both questions is yes. The answer to both is in fact no, as shown by Rudin [Ru58] (conditional on the continuum hypothesis).