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TIL America, named after explorer Amerigo Vespucci, owes its name to cartographer Vautrin Lud and other members of the Vosges Gymnasium, who in 1507 produced the Universalis Cosmographia in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France), the world's first map to include the “new continent”.

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