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History’s Strangest Questions: Where does the name America come from?

Season 1 Episode 166 Published 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Everyone knows America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. The Italian explorer. The New World. The map. Case closed.

Except it isn't.

Current research points to someone else entirely. Someone hiding in plain sight for five hundred years. Someone the history books never mention.

The answer, when it comes, is not what you'd expect. And once you hear it — you won't easily unhear it.

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