stackyFACTSGlobe makers have been flattering our planet for centuries. Earth is not a perfect sphere; it is an oblate spheroid with a bulging middle and flattened polar extremes. Throw in the gravitational variations, and stripped of its water, our home looks less like a marble and more like a battered root vegetable.
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