Why is the discriminant of number fields greater 1?

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Is there an immediate proof not using Minkowski's bound that we have $|\Delta_K|>1$ for all number fields $K \ne \mathbb Q$?

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There is a proof by E. Landau in 1922 using the pigeonhole principle.

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