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Christopher Columbus's pear-shaped Earth. Confronted with evidence that contradicted his belief he had reached Asia, Columbus proposed the earth was pear-shaped, "with a prominence like a woman's nip… (lemmy.today)

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago

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