Flat Earth

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What Wikipedia says

Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient societies subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography. The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory in the 21st century.

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