50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA

Christopher Columbus did not discover America. He never even set foot on North American soil or made it past the Caribbean, whose inhabitants he terrorized, brutalized, and enslaved. Not only was Columbus not aware that he had “discovered” a new continent, but many historians believe Norse explorer Leif Erikson landed in Canada 500 years earlier.

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