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DID YOU KNOW?Vikings reached NorthAmerica about 500years beforeColumbus.HISTORYsomanyfacts.com

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Vikings reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.

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A Norse settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, dates to around the year 1000. Tree rings in its wood show timber was cut there in 1021.

Source: L’Anse aux Meadows (Wikipedia)

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