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I mean, there’s a corner of Russia that’s close to Alaska!! I mean, didn’t they notice that or something?! They sailed distances equal to going around the Earth twenty times years before ever discovering America!! I’m sure someone went to that little corner and went “Hey! There’s some kind of land over there! Maybe we should set sail to see what it is instead of commissioning an Italian explorer to go the long way around and mistaking some brown-skinned people for Indians!!” (Maybe not phrased like that exactly but still! I mean…damnit! This makes no sense to me!) Help? I’d really appreciate someone satisfying my curiosity.