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Combinatorial results by Poincaré duality

For the n-dimensional Torus, the k-th homology group (with integer coefficients) is isomorphic to the direct sum of $n \choose k$ copies of $\mathbb{Z}$. Poincaré duality thus gives us a somewhat indirect way to show that ${n \choose k} = {n \choose n-k}$.

I am looking for results (or a starting point in the literature) where less obvious combinatorial results are derived by Poincaré duality.

I think that this is roughly related to the following questions:

How can we realize different combinatorial objects as the dimension of a construction on vector spaces? Are the resulting algebras useful?

Combinatorial results without known combinatorial proofs