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Originally Posted by DonVoigt
Piling on does not help. JMHO.
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"I didn't come to help, I came to mock" - with apologies to Rajesh Koothrappali...
If I hadn't looked up the circumference of the Earth, I wouldn't have known that Eratosthenes accurately calculated the circumference of the Earth some 1600 years before Columbus sailed for the 'New World'...And that the ancient Egyptians then had known for some time that the Earth was round...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
https://gizmodo.com/how-the-circumfe...ted-1493009177
As for Porta-Potties, I frequented Watkins Glen, Mosport, Harewood, even Indy during the 1970's and spent many stressful minutes in those plastic outhouses...
