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The Equator's Perceived Straightness
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Some people have a strong memory of the Earth's Equator being a perfectly straight line on all maps and globes, not accounting for its slight wiggles due to Earth's true shape and landmasses.
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What People Remember
People recall the Equator as an absolutely perfect, unbending straight line across the globe.
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What's Actually True
While a theoretical line, on maps and globes, the Equator appears to follow the curvature of the Earth and occasionally 'wiggles' slightly due to mapping projections and the planet's geoid shape, not a perfectly straight line in 2D projection.
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#global#maps#lines#earth
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