• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Christopher Columbus set out to prove that the Earth was round after eating an orange or something and that’s how jesus discovered America

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      7 months ago

      You probably had the same damn book I did, with an illustration of him eating an orange and seeing the wings of a butterfly coming up over it and supposedly realizing they look just like the sails of a ship and so, gasp, the world must be round like this orange!