People also made TV shows proving that the Egyptians had discovered pi because pi was in the ratio between the base and the height, or more likely space aliens built it because pi was improbable for the Egyptians.
Then some wit torpedoed it by pointing out that if you used a measuring wheel of 1 cubit in diameter, and measured out the base using so many rotations of the wheel, and measured out the height in cubits, pi is in the ratio without needing to discover it.
A cubit is the distance from a (standardized) man's elbow to his middle fingertip, from Latin "cubitum" = "elbow". Perhaps a more convenient reference than the foot when measuring things that aren't on the ground.
Then some wit torpedoed it by pointing out that if you used a measuring wheel of 1 cubit in diameter, and measured out the base using so many rotations of the wheel, and measured out the height in cubits, pi is in the ratio without needing to discover it.
No, I don't know what a cubit is. Don't ask.