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TIL that according to a flat earth theory our forests are not “real”, thousands of years ago, 99% of the Earth’s biosphere were destroyed, and the real forests were taken away. Real trees were hundreds of kilometres tall, magical organisms that sustained a total living ecology of the flat earth.

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