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Andrea Ferretti
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The easiest example I can think of is the natural incidence correspondence between $\mathbb{P}^3$ and the parameter space of cubic surfaces. This can be used to show that every cubic surface contains a line; from this it follows easily that every smooth cubic surface contains exactly $27$ lines.

Andrea Ferretti
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