CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - 5 THINGS YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT THE EXPLORER: 🇮🇹👀 1. MYTH: Columbus discovered America. ❌ FACT: Columbus never set foot in North America. ✅ Columbus certainly put the Americas on the proverbial map after opening up a new trade route for Europeans, but he actually never sailed to North America. In fact, he wasn’t even the first European to come to the Americas. Many historians suspect that Viking Leif Erickson, who established a settlement in northeastern Canada in t