He did make a lot of discoveries: chemist, microbiologist, wine and food technologist, vaccin developper / producer, etc.
He was from a small French settlement near Quebec in what is now Canada.
He peered into his pants then found a orange giant squirrel. He then took this squirrel and fried it to find that this squirrel was infact super squirrel and he died. The end.
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Pedro Alvares Cabral discover Brazil,Madagascar and Mozambique