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YES! C.E. Shannon for the WIN :)
It's a great insight, but not that hard to prove (or at least "get" the reasoning behind it): anything that distinguishes the data from randomness is redundant information, and that redundancy can be used to further compress it.
(Obviously, that doesn't count as a formal proof, &c.)