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TIL that the great Spanish explorer Magellan died in the Philippines in 1521 by miscalculation and was left to his own until the natives overwhelm him. It is probable that a random warrior wounded his leg, incapacitating him. Before, the known killer of Magellan was Lapu-Lapu, a local chieftain.
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TIL that naming of North & South America continent in honour of Amerigo Vespucci was a result of an mistake by a German cartographer while making a map of world in 1507 who thought Vespucci rather than Columbus was the explorer who discovered America after reading a document called Mundus Novus.
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TIL about the Mandan, or “Welsh Indians.” A tribe of Native Americans with a European appearance and a language that sounded like Welsh, they were at first believed to have been the descendants of the legendary Welsh explorer, Prince Madoc, who was said to have sailed to America in the 1170s.
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