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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/Littlesebastian86 on 2023-10-06 19:05:18.

Boats aren’t hard to make and surly man has had them for nearly as long as we have been around, no?

While most boats would struggle to make the ocean journey, it just seems by pure statistical chance some groups would have tried boats and made it across to North America?