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Points on a sphere

Wonder whether you know where the following pearl of Topology first appeared:

Prove that at any instant of time you can find three isothermal points on the surface of the Earth that correspond to the vertices of an equilateral triangle.

According to Erdős (citation needed) all problems appeared once in the Monthly. Does that dictum applies to the above teaser, too?

José Hdz. Stgo.
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