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(Inside Science) -- Earth might look like a sphere, but it's actually an "oblate spheroid" -- the planet is slightly squished, making the circumference of the equator bigger than the circumference through the poles. Clouds, ocean currents, and long-range missiles all would behave differently if Earth were perfectly spherical. 

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