35 Random But Interesting Trivia Nuggets to Help You Learn Something New This Week

If you grew up in the United States of America, there’s a good chance that you grew up being fed the usual story about Christopher Columbus being the first person to land over here. And I guess if you add a lot of qualifications to that, there are some circumstances where it’s true.

In actuality, though, there had been other people who had come to this land mass at various times. One of the most famous is the Norse explorer Leif Ericksen, who may very well have been the first European to set foot on the North American continent.