I have no flat faces, no straight edges, and no corners, yet every straight planar slice cut through my center produces an identical circle. What solid shape am I?
A sphere
A sphere is completely symmetrical in three dimensions; every cross-section through its center yields a circle of radius equal to the sphere's radius.
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