History
Which famous explorer was not actually the discoverer of America?
Christopher Columbus (Vikings were there 500 years earlier)
Background
Columbus arrived in America in 1492. But already around the year 1000 the Viking Leif Erikson was in modern Canada. He founded a small settlement there called L'Anse aux Meadows. Researchers have found the remains. Columbus also believed until his death that he had landed in India.
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