TIL "Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse



Submitted March 21, 2015 at 02:18AM by dremasterfanto http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zqn86/til_christopher_columbus_in_an_effort_to_induce/