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TIL Chris Columbus once successfully intimidated Jamaican locals by correctly predicting a total lunar eclipse. He said that if they stopped providing for him and his crew, God would get angry and make the moon disappear. When the eclipse actually occurred, they begged for God's forgiveness.

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