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I kind of feel like flat earth thing started out with people trolling, but a number of morons believed it to be true and now it's just trolls leading the idiots.
No, it started out when the telescope was invented but people couldn't go to space so they could only speculate.
Actually it started out when Erathostenes calculated the size of the earth
This person knows their crusty old Greek men!