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The North American Great Lakes are bafflingly large, with the whole system making up 21% of Earth’s unfrozen freshwater. No lake system in Europe is even close to this size. Were early European colonists surprised that something like this existed?

by /u/FriddyNanz in /r/AskHistorians

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