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Vikings reached America centuries before Columbus. GPS: pure instinct edition.

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Norse explorers reached parts of North America around 1000 CE, with archaeological evidence at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. That’s nearly 500 years before Columbus’s 1492 voyage.

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