stackyFACTSColumbus didn't prove the Earth was round; the Greeks did that 2,000 years earlier. But towards the end of his life, his math got so incredibly terrible he actually concluded the planet was shaped like a giant pear, with a literal "nipple" on top that pointed directly to heaven. The man was profoundly terrible at basic geography.
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