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by 4ggr0 2095 days ago
Well, that's a REALLY long time ago. 1300 years ago the vast majority of people believed that the world was round. The flat-earth theory is strangely enough a relatively modern theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

EDIT: Sorry, only just now saw that another commenter already posted the same link.