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TIL the word "America" is a latinized version of Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who voyaged to the "new world" and published two popular booklets in Europe about the new continent. This inspired cartographer Martin Waldseemüller to label the new land after him on his maps, creating the trend.

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