“Millionaire is a stupid slow show. What? 5 minutes per question?”

That is it. A smart person could not stand 5 minutes of that show. So 58% of French people, dim witted enough to enjoy that crappy show, think the sun rotates around the earth. That makes sense. Final answer.

Edit : The following concern with regard to spelling has come up a few times. I decide to look it up.

Nouns ending in -ce with -se verb forms: American English and British English both retain the noun/verb distinction in advice / advise and device / devise, but American English has lost the same distinction with licence / license and practice / practise that British spelling retains. American English uses practice and license for both meanings. Also, American English has kept the Anglo-French spelling for defense and offense, which are usually defence and offence in British English; similarly there are the American pretense and British pretence; but derivatives such as defensive, offensive, and pretension are always thus spelled in both systems.