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Remember when 'Cosmos' host Carl Sagan debunked flat Earthers with a piece of cardboard?

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'Cosmos' host Carl Sagan debunked flat Earthers with a piece of cardboard.

Sagan hosted the original version of TV's " Cosmos " in 1980 .

An ancient Libyan-Greek scholar, Eratosthenes , proved that the Earth was a sphere.

YouGov survey of more than 8,000 Americans found one in six are "not entirely certain the world is round".

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