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TIL many of the American Indians Columbus met in the Caribbean were not actually native but were instead Caribs- cannibals that had conquered the islands 200 years before his arrival. Cannibalism was so prolific that the English word itself comes from the Spanish name for Carib people- Caníbal.

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