I have in my posession an extremely rare artifact that seems to contradict the study in the story.
It’s Columbus’s tee-shirt that say’s “I Went to the New World and All I Got Was the Clap”.
:’) His was also the first account of Precolumbian contact evidence — an old-timer on a Caribbean island had a gold pendant strung around his neck, turned out to be an Old World coin. The old man had found it when he was young, free diving.