What about gravity? When did you realize that it actually wasn't electromagnetism?
I grew up being taught that the world was round I never ever thought that the world was flat
We had a globe it never came up.
As much flat-earthers can be both funny and frustrating, it is a reminder of a larger, dangerous phenomenon, the my opinions as good as yours school of thought. Expertise matters, and embracing ignorance is not cool. I think of it thusly:
Yes, you are entitled to your opinion. However, your opinion is not entitled to be shared, when based on ignorance or intolerance and it is not equivalent to opinion from an expert.
If you don't think it matters, 62M people voted for Trump.
Great question but I have no idea. We had a set of Encyclopedia Britanica and if I asked a question like that I was often told to look it up. Since I learned to read at an early age I was able to learn a lot from it. It also had fun articles especially for children which helped.
My mother and grandparents probably told me at an early age that the earth was round if I mentioned it being flat. Since they were my authorities on everything I would have taken their word for it. They did not lie to me.
Besides I was a Superman fan and he flew around the earth so of course it was round.
What? It isn't?
Bugger, That's another belief dashed since I joined this site....
Is nothing sacred?
I know :/
don't remember always seen movies and shows with globes or space men looking at the world.