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I'll offer some possibilities: The uniformity of gravity wherever you are on earth's surface; the agreement of observed times of sunrise and sunset, and other astronomical observations, with those predicted by our current models. There is also the data gathered and used for the mind-bogglingly accurate performance of GPS systems. If earth were not (very close to) spherical, this data would reveal it.

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