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$S$ unit sphere of an $\infty$-dim Banach isn't compact. Pf: for $H$ closed hyperplane, $\bigcap(S\cap H)\neq\varnothing$ (Hahn-Banach), but no finite subintersection is empty.

Note: $\infty$, $\bigcap$, $\cap$, $\neq$, and $\varnothing$ are unicode characters, so this is actually tweetable!