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Did Amerigo Vespucci discover the us?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Actually, yes. He found it before Columbus. I think he landed on the Isthmus of Panama (somewhere around there) and once he crossed it, discovered a whole new ocean and realized that this was not china after all!

Oh, wait, the Isthmus of Panama is not part of the US.

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