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Kelly Weill, Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

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The History of the Flat Earth Movement

The leader of the short-lived South African Republic, Kruger, was a Flat Earther. He would get very irate with people who talked about sailing around the world. And he thought it was a disk that you could just travel across the flat surface.

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