Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

  • @CoggyMcFee
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    151 year ago

    They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

    —Carl Sagan

    • @ForgotAboutDre
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      41 year ago

      Columbus thought the world was pear shaped. Meaning it was viable to get to India by going west. If the Americas didn’t exist he would have died.

      It was well known at the time that the world was round. The ancient Greeks had a very good calculation if the circumference of the earth.